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Massive Young Voter Turnout = 2022 Blue Wave. Can you Spare a Couple of Hours to Make it Happen? [1]

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Date: 2022-08-01

About two million voters will have turned 18 between November 8, 2020 and November 8, 2022. And yet their voter registration rate is dismal throughout the country — at worst, under 20% and at best, 30%. For example, in the vital state of Arizona, less than 15% of 18 year-olds in the two largest counties are registered to vote. In one of them, Pima County, less than nine percent are registered. In the other, Maricopa, it’s 14%. This compares with about 76% of voters 25 or older who are registered.

Mark Kelley won the special election for an AZ Senate seat by about 79,000 votes or 2.4%, and must run again this year. Voting by young people, including 18-year-olds, could be decisive.

This is where you come in.

Volunteers for the Non-Partisan Young Voter Registration Group, The Civics Center, are contacting high schools leading up to High School Voter Registration Week, September 19-23, 2022.

The first states we are contacting are Arizona and Nevada.

The Civics Center volunteers will be contacting high schools to determine the contact person at the schools who would handle a voter registration drive before and during Voter Registration Week.

That’s all you have to do! Just determine the contact information for the Assistant Principal, Student Government Advisor, Social Studies Teacher or Chair, or any other person who will implement a voter registration drive, and send the information to The Civics Center. They will work with that person to implement the drive in the school with its digital toolkit and other resources.

This should not take more than a couple of hours (unless, of course, you have time to do more!).

You can do any or all of the following:

You can also motivate voters with these Voter Registration Stickers from The Civics Center, which include a QR Code linking to a step-by-step guide on how to register to vote in all 50 states:

THANKS!

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