With a last-day push on college campuses across the
state, the nonpartisan Student Vote Coalition well surpassed their voter registration
goal, with a final count of 21,850 registered students by the end of the day
Tuesday. 18,000 of these students were
registered in only the three and a half weeks since school began September 25th. The Student Vote Coalition’s yearly goal was
to register 18,000 statewide, but students’ hard work to register their peers
brought that number to 21,850—over 9,000 more students than the group
registered in 2002, the last mid-term election.
When combined with the 11,600 young voters registered
off-campus by Student
Vote Coalition
member Building
Votes, new student and young voters will stand 33,450 strong this
election. This means that the work of
the Student Vote Coalition and allies have grown Oregon's young and student voter
population by over 10 percent!
The Student Vote
Coalition is a nonpartisan partnership of organizations
working to register and turn out Oregon
college students to vote. The Coalition
includes OSPIRG, OSA, Building Votes, and the Oregon Community College
Student Association.
