At an awards ceremony during the Democratic National Convention, we recognized several organizations for their non-partisan efforts to increase voter participation. New Voter Project staff are pictured here receiving their award.
In 2004, the PIRG New Voters Project has staff in 20 states organizing to increase voter participation among 18-24 year old voters. With support from the Pew Charitable Trusts, and in collaboration with George Washington University, the New Voters Project is focusing an intensive voter registration & GOTV program in six states, registering 265,000 young voters, building a professional grade voter file of young voters, and making 500,000 peer-to-peer GOTV contacts. The PIRG Community Voters Project is working in ten states to register 150,000 minority voters and turn them out to vote.
Fore more information on this important project, please visit www.newvotersproject.org.
