The article highlights how Elon students are working to increase engagement in the democratic process.
For many college students, Tuesday, Nov. 5, offers a first chance to cast a ballot in a presidential election, and students involved in Elon Votes! are working to help their peers understand the importance of being engaged in elections.
The work of Elon Votes!, a nonpartisan student-run organization housed within the Kernodle Center for Civic Life, was recently highlighted by the Burlington Times-News. The article focused on how student coordinators within the organization are navigating changes to voting laws including new voter ID requirements and what they are seeing as the various campaigns head toward Election Day.
From the article:
The student organization, which promotes civic engagement among Elon’s 7,200 students, was launched 10 years ago as an initiative to provide Elon University students with the resources they needed to vote.
“We are student-led, which is makes us very engaged with our local campus community,” (Coordinator Lindsay) Bialecki said. “We’re in people’s classes, we’re friends, we’re in other organizations on campus, but we really make sure that we use that peer-to-peer contact to make sure that something like voting or some political issues that can seem really daunting and scary can kind of be broken down and digestible.”
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