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Text messaging motivates young voters - Howie Politics Indiana (new window)
According to the nonpartisan, New Voter’s Project, young voters (defined as 18 – 31 years old) are turning out in record numbers at the primary polls.
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Text Messaging Gets the Vote Out - Wireless and Mobile News (new window)
An article in the New York Times recalls an important study from the Student PIRGs' New Voters Project and Working Assets, in cooperation with researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University, released a study demonstrating the effectiveness of using text / SMS messages to mobile phones to mobilize young voters in the November 2006 elections. The study found that text message reminders to new voters increased an individual's likelihood of voting by 4.2 percentage points.
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Mass. ramps up voter registration efforts - Boston Metro (new window)
As candidates blaze trails coast to coast, those itching to have their say in who becomes our next president are finding more options, with registration drives popping up all over the area in advance of Election Day.
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Students try to text the vote - Montgomery County Sentinel (new window)
Thanks to student volunteers on the University of Maryland's College Park campus, 650 people received text messages on Aug. 7 reminding them to register to vote. Volunteers spent the afternoon asking peers to contact their friends as part of the "Text the Vote" campaign, which was the beginning of an intensive effort to register young voters for the 2008 election.
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Electoral reform law challenged in N.M. - The Politico (new window)
A coalition of nonpartisan voter registration organizations has filed suit in New Mexico against parts of a 2005 electoral reform law that they contend unconstitutionally abrogates their right to collect voter registrations.
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Groups sue over New Mexico voter registration law - Associated Press (new window)
Voter rights advocates want a judge to overturn New Mexico's law on registering voters, saying it has a chilling effect on registration drives and groups' ability to encourage people to participate in the political process.
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John Baer: They rock! Group uses concerts to sign up young voters - Philadelphia Daily News (new window)
'M NOT MUCH of a rock concert fan. I'm too old and they're too loud. And even when I wasn't too old I didn't go to many.
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Colleges, voter registration, and a historic opportunity: a more detailed proposal - The Free Press (Columbus) (new window)
What would be the impact if America's campuses got as many of their 17 million enrolled students as possible registered to vote and participating in the fall campaigns? My sense, from recent youth voting patterns, is that it would make a major difference.
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Summer puts crimp in student organizing - The Politico (new window)
Time magazine may call 2008 “the year of the youth vote,” but can the year take a three-month summer break? Many young voters — those under 30 — are college or graduate students.
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USG to co-host VOTE B!G event to promote voter registration - The Bowling Green News (new window)
The Undergraduate Student Government is teaming up with the Ohio Public Interest Research Group to register as many voters as possible for their VOTE B!G event today from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Union. A 6-by-6 ballot box will be set up in the Union so USG can register their goal of 90 percent of campus.
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Young Voters Predict Big Impact on Fall Election - News Hour with Jim Lehrer (new window)
Finally tonight, a new enthusiasm for politics among voters under 30. Judy Woodruff has the story.
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It's Finals Time For Student Superdelegates - The Washington Post (new window)
All that online pressure, all the instant messages on AIM and Gchat, all those YouTube comments and Facebook messages and wall posts added up to something: Two more delegates for Sen. Barack Obama.
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Indiana nuns lacking ID denied at poll by fellow sister - Associated Press (new window)
According to the New Voters Project, sponsored by Student Public Interest Groups, about a dozen college students at Notre Dame, Butler University and Indiana University said they were told at the polls they didn't have the right form of identification. Angela Hiss, a 19-year-old sophomore at Notre Dame, presented her Notre Dame ID card and her Illinois driver's license. Poll workers did not inform her that she could have cast a provisional ballot, she told project staff monitoring her polling place.
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Nuns are turned away from the polls under voter ID law - Los Angeles Times (new window)
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Indiana and North Carolina Primary Results - Youth Vote - FutureMajority.com (new window)
According to reports, there was some voter suppression in Indiana, particularly among students attending private universities, however the numbers may be lower than anticipated. Groups like the Student PIRGs are still working on the issue and I'll post updates if/when I get them.
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Indiana and North Carolina Outcomes - Wiretap Magazine (new window)
In the most exciting news I've seen on election coverage, The Washington Post declares young voters to be one of the winners of last night's election.
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Voter ID law excludes some private college students - Lafayette Journal Courier (new window)
GREENCASTLE - Students at Indiana's state universities such as Purdue and Indiana University were able to use their student IDs to qualify to vote Tuesday, but that wasn't true for some attending private schools such as DePauw University.
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Indiana voter ID law turns away some - Gannett News Service (new window)
Students at Indiana’s state universities such as Purdue and Indiana University were able to use their student IDs to qualify to vote Tuesday, but that wasn’t true for some attending private schools such as DePauw University.
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Voter ID Law Consequences Mild in Ind - Washington Post - The Trail Blog (new window)
Aside from the eye-catching case of a dozen women of the cloth being turned away at the polls, it does not appear as if Indiana's strict voter identification law, upheld by the Supreme Court last month, has caused major problems during the state's primary today.
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Nothing normal about presidential race - Contra Costa Times (new window)
How unconventional is this presidential election year? Well, in the past two weeks Hillary Rodham Clinton downed a shot of whiskey at an Indiana bar, Barack Obama gave his first interview to archcritics at Fox TV, and John McCain took a tour of Appalachia with former Hewlett-Packard head Carly Fiorina, his economic advisor.
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WWE® Asks Presidential Candidates To Address The Issues - 411mania.com (new window)
WWE's Smackdown Your Vote! today released the 2008 18-30 Voter Issues Paper (VIP), a guide to help young adults articulate the issues important to them in this national election, and a platform through which the candidates can provide their responses to issues important to this voting demographic. The 18-30 VIP addresses the economy, Iraq war, education, health care, and the environment as the most important issues on the minds of young voters.
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ID ruling stuns Dems, Ind. setback for Obama - The Hill (new window)
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 Monday to uphold a strict Indiana law requiring voters to present photo identification at the polls, handing Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) a serious setback days before a pivotal primary battle.
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Clinton takes Pennsylvania Primary - Daily Trojan (new window)
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Sen. Hillary Clinton was leading Sen. Barack Obama 55 percent to 45 percent in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday night.
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Street Team '08 - Pennsylvania - MTV.com (new window)
I just stopped by Temple's campus, where the non-partisan Pennsylvania Public Independent Research Group was busing students to the polls every 20-30 minutes.
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Iowa, NE students relevant in elections - Daily Nebraskan (new window)
DES MOINES, IOWA - Sloane Cornelius never felt she could effect political change. But there she was, on Feb. 9, sitting with her back to a wall in the Nebraska Union, surrounded by 207 student Democrats while waiting for the first caucus ever held in the Cornhusker state to begin.
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High youth turnout expected today - The Daily Pennsylvanian (new window)
If the thousands of students at Sen. Barack Obama's Philadelphia rally last Friday - and the thousands that came to the Palestra last night for Hillary Clinton's rally - are any indication, this year's primaries have seen a dramatic rise in youth involvement.
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Youth Voter Participation Surges - But So Do Voter Suppression Attempts - OpedNews.com (new window)
Young voters have arrived. Finally.
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'Other Youth Vote' is harder to mobilize - Christian Science Monitor (new window)
Philadelphia - Twenty-year-old Mike Santini, a diesel engine mechanic from Philadelphia, won't be voting in the state's April 22 primary. Like most young voters, the economy is a big concern for Mr. Santini – especially now that his hours at work are being cut – but he doesn't feel engaged enough to cast a ballot.
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Erica Briant, PennPIRG, New Voters Project Field Organizer - C-SPAN, Washington Journal (new window)
Erica Briant, PennPIRG discusses the New Voters Project & they are reaching out to young, potential voters.
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New-voter trend will continue in Pennsylvania primary - McClatchy-Tribune News Service (new window)
Sandra Jones, an unemployed transit worker, and college student Christy Race are part of 2008's biggest electoral phenomenon _ an army of people who never voted but are swarming to the polls this year.
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