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May 2012

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Local Election Officials Can Help You with Your Student Voting Plan

Blog Author: 
Dan Vicuna, CVP Coordinator

In order to pick your Campus Vote Project goals, you’ll need to identify the particular problems that trip up student voters and keep them from voting in your community. Local election officials (LEOs) – the people who run everything from voter registration to counting the ballots – are a great resource and are often willing to help. Setting up a meeting early on will help you identify your priorities.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Create and Implement a Media Plan to Increase Student Voting

Blog Author: 
Dan Vicuna, CVP Coordinator

Creating and implementing a media strategy can be an essential part of your plan to make your college campus more voter-friendly. The CVP toolkit lays out the elements of a successful media strategy.

Determine Your Targets

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Use the Summer to Build a Coalition on Campus to Work on Student Voting Issues

Blog Author: 
Dan Vicuna, CVP Coordinator

Summer is a great time to begin organizing a coalition of campus organizations to work on student voting issues. Combining the people and resources of our organizations helps strengthen your forces, divides up work, and ultimately can help you achieve your goals. Below, are some tips to help you ensure your coalition is a success!

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Friday, May 11, 2012

Campus Groups in Wisconsin Educating and Mobilizing Students

Blog Author: 
Josh Spaulding

This week, Wisconsin students went to the polls to select who was going to run against Governor Scott Walker in the recall election on June 5. With finals and packing up for the end of the school year, the timing of the election can present challenges for students to get to the polls. However, there was at least one hurdle that students didn’t need to overcome – showing ID to vote.

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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Wanted: Students Helping Peers Vote This November

Blog Author: 
Dan Vicuna, CVP Coordinator

Summer break provides a perfect opportunity to plan student voter registration and GOTV activities to make sure that your campus organization is ready to implement them as soon as the school year begins.

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Starting a Student Poll Worker Program

Blog Author: 
Dan Vicuna

Election Day poll workers play an integral role in making sure elections work and voters can vote. They are responsible for everything from setting up and opening the polling place to reconciling ballot counts at the end of the day and preparing ballots for delivery to the election office.

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