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Your Voice + Your Vote Makes Debut With Voting Event
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Your Voice + Your Vote, a new coalition of several nonpartisan organizations in Tompkins County, made its debut with a voting event on Saturday.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/voter-registration/)
Your Voice + Your Vote, a new coalition of several nonpartisan organizations in Tompkins County, made its debut with a voting event on Saturday.
When juxtaposed with the housing and location stability that many adults enjoy, it’s no wonder that our voter participation rates are so staggering. With the addition of on-campus polling places this year due to fierce student advocacy, voting will become a little easier for some Cornellians. However, since significant percentages of our domestic student population live outside of New York state, in order to participate in this year’s elections, they likely will have had to navigate the same absentee ballot request process that I struggled with.
Cornell Votes is organizing to ensure that every Cornellian is registered to vote for the 2020 election.
Prof. Charles Stewart III, a political science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Prof. Stephen Ansolabehere, a government professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in voting rights cases, spoke on voter turnout at Call Auditorium Wednesday in Kennedy Hall.
As midterm elections loom near on Nov. 6, various organizations across campus are mobilizing to register students to vote, emphasizing the importance of civic engagement.