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Strategies for Encouraging Voting: Electoral Voices

Project Summary
What were the experiences of our campuses in the past national election in designing strategies to encourage greater voter education, registration, and participation? What did the research from CIRCLE and other research organizations reveal? What are the recommended approaches that can be used in future elections? These are all questions that the Electoral Voices Taskforce sought to answer in its monograph entitled, Electoral Voices: A Best Practices Guide for Engaging College Students in Elections monograph. This monograph will serve as a guide for colleges and universities that are working to increase the level of student participation in elections.


Electoral Voices taskforce

Harry Basehart
Co-Director, PACE Institute for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement
Salisbury University

Elizabeth Bennion
Assistant Professor of Political Science
and Campus Director, ADP
Indiana University South Bend

Melanie J. Blumberg
Associate Professor of Political Science
and Campus Co-Director, ADP
California University of Pennsylvania

Corey Cook
Assistant Professor of Political Science
San Francisco State University

Andrew Downs
Director, Mike Downs Center
for Indiana Politics
Indiana University--Purdue University Fort Wayne

Richard Kendrick
American Democracy Project Coordinator
State University of New York College at Cortland

Molly Kerby
Professor of Women’s Studies
and ADP Coordinator
Western Kentucky University

Kelly Komasa
Program Coordinator,
Institute for Civic and Community Engagement
San Francisco State University

Matthew Manweller
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Central Washington University

George Mehaffy
Vice President for Academic Leadership
and Change
American Association of State Colleges
and Universities (AASCU)

Joanne Necco
Professor, Professional Teacher Education
University of Central Oklahoma

James Perry
Director, Indiana University ADP
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis

Chapman Rackaway
Associate Professor of Political Science
Fort Hays State University

Debra Worley
Interim Coordinator, General Education
Indiana State University



Partner Organizations
League of Women Voters
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)
Project Vote Smart
The New York Times
Harvard Institute of Politics
Campus Compact
Eagleton at Rutgers University
American Political Science Association