Helping First-Time Voters
Poster presented at American Library Association 2004 Annual Conference
Orlando, Florida - June 2004
by Tiffany Anderson (tanderson@depauw.edu)
and Kathryn Millis (millisk@depauw.edu)
Abstract:
November 2, 2004 will be the first
presidential election that most college & university students can participate
in. Most are unsure of what they need to do and know before they can vote, and
most don’t vote. (In 2000, less than 1/3 of 18 to 22 year olds voted.)
Librarians, especially those of us at colleges, universities, & high schools,
can play an important role in the democratic process by providing our patrons
with information about voting procedures, candidates, parties, and platforms;
and the importance of voting. This poster features ways that DePauw University
librarians are helping our students learn about the candidates and issues, and
also how to register, and when and where to vote.
This poster Helping
First-Time Voters is a single, rather large PowerPoint slide. To view it
properly, save it to your computer and then open it using PowerPoint.
Website for students:
http://www.depauw.edu/library/voting/
Contains links to partisan and non-partisan
candidate and election sites, voter registration forms, and information about
voting by absentee ballot.
Who do I collaborate with?
Campus and community organizations to contact
Links Young People Voting – by the Numbers:
·
Quick
Facts: Youth Voting
·
The Youth
Vote Fact Sheet
·
Youth Voter Turnout has Declined, by Any Measure
·
Getting Out
the Youth Vote in Local Elections: Results from Six Door-to-Door Canvassing
Experiments
·
The Political Personality of America’s College Students: a Poll by Harvard’s
Institute of Politics
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