Earlier this week, the US Census bureau released some statistics on the voters in the 2012 election. Their numbers broke down voters by age, race, gender, and location and examined their turnout rates and methods of voting. For students, some great observations have already been pulled by the research group CIRCLE; here are some of their key findings:

A recent article from The New York Times has generated a lot of discussion in the voting rights world. The piece, which profiles three young people of different political affiliations, examines the trend in “millennial” voters towards disenchantment and disappointment with politics.

Saturday, March 23 marks the 42nd anniversary of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. To commemorate this event, the Fair Elections Legal Network is releasing College Students and Voting: A Campus Vote Project Perspective.

Originally posted at The Huffington Post.

At 3 PM EST on Wednesday, September 26, Campus Vote Project, an initiative of the Fair Elections Legal Network, will be hosting a virtual town hall for college students and campus administrators to discuss student voting in the upcoming election.

The American Democracy Project and The Democracy Commitment, two campaigns of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, urged their Pennsylvania members to update their student IDs to ensure that students could use them to vote.

The article originally appeared on the Huffington Post.

Miami Dade College (MDC), the nation’s largest and most diverse higher education institution is proud to partner with the Fair Elections Legal Network (FELN) on its new campaign, Campus Vote Project (CVP).