Ways Your Chapter Can Encourage Others to Voice Their Vote!
Challenge other campus organizations to a game of voter trivia.
Host a political debate on campus.
Hold mock elections.
- Encourage students to cast ballots in honor or memory of family or friends who battled cancer.
- Have "themed" voter registration events (midnight-madness, or costume voter registration).
- Turn a meeting into a voter registration or awareness party, and give prizes to the member who brings the most people.
- Host a movie night for your campus and community featuring a movie about American politics, and ask a Political Science professor from your college to lead a discussion afterwards.
- Post a voter registration form on your chapter website.
- Use your campus library as a voter registration center for your county.
- Hold a voter awareness night at a local shopping mall.
- Take a field trip to your state capitol, and see how state government works.
- Encourage chapter members to submit an article to your community newspaper sharing a student's perspective on the electoral process.
- Hold a voter registration drive at your chapter induction.
- Have an election information stand on your campus throughout the voting season.
- Publicize Election Day early and often.
- Organize a phone bank and call students on your campus to encourage them to register to vote.
- Provide a press release to local newspapers about voter awareness programs your chapter is doing.
- Do a USA TODAY Case Study with your chapter relating an aspect of politics to popular culture.
- Challenge a neighboring chapter to a voter registration competition.
- Host Presidential Debate party.
- Ask your college's computer labs to designate Voice Your Vote as the homepage on the lab's computers.
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