As the American public ponders who they’ll vote for in the 2008 presidential election, lawyers behind the scenes are gearing up to ensure that everyone’s vote counts.
In the battleground states like Florida, Ohio, Colorado, Virginia, and Nevada, the Democratic and Republican parties are deploying teams of lawyers at the polls to ensure that bureaucracy and [...]
Add Comment More on the ATT&T and Rock the Vote partnership we reported on a couple weeks ago… Here’s a video on the collaboration as it was announced in the weeks before the Iowa caucus. The idea is to get young people to text each other about politics and thus motivate each other to express [...]
On the heels of the caucus results, where young voters had a large influence on the outcomes, we talked to Kat Barr, Education Director for Rock the Vote and one of the organization’s main bloggers, about what has been changing in youth politics since Rock the Vote opened shop in 1990. Read the interview and [...]
The message last night in Iowa was a clear: Please let’s change the whole mess up!
Sounding the opening bell on the 2008 elections, caucus-goers voted overwhelmingly for a first-term African-American senator on the left and an anti-BigMoney governor on the right. Key to the victories of both men was the mad increase in participation [...]
Evidence suggests that peer-to-peer voter turnout campaigns work to significantly mobilize young voters. For any of you Iowans who haven’t yet been successfully peer-to-peered, Rock the Vote and its smackdown partner are posting some motivational PSAs and trivia quizzes that are kinda funny. So rock your caucus, people, because caucusing means working for change!
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According to a press release we received yesterday, AT&T, acting with profitable civic-mindedness, has gotten together with Rock the Vote to encourage young voters to… send more text messages about politics?!
In fact, the program seems cool. Rock the Vote is aiming to register 2 million people under the age of 30 for the 2008 [...]
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