College Student Voting Resources

Posted by Campus Compact of New York and Pennsylvania on March 22, 2022

Votes & Ballots is a suite of interactive team-wide strategic activities that take the guesswork out of writing action plans for on-campus democratic engagement. It can be used at summits, campus coalition meetings, or any other context where you’d want to get started on an action plan! Votes & Ballots was created as a fun, interactive activity to gamify the action planning process based on the Strengthening American Democracy Guide. Votes & Ballots can be used at summits, campus coalition meetings, or any other context where you’d want to get started on an action plan. Votes & Ballots incorporates and provides guidance around leadership, engagement, assessment, and strategic planning. Campuses can use Votes & Ballots to support their action planning process each year.

Parties and other political groups often overlook the votes and energy of young people even where youth can have a decisive influence on the outcome of the race. CIRCLE is providing data-driven insights about the states where youth are poised to have a disproportionately high electoral impact in 2022 — if campaigns and organizations invest in engaging them. In the coming months, as more states finalize their redistricting processes, we’ll add rankings for House races.