Empowering Global Citizens

Resource

1. Source of data for examining voting trends (http://www.idea.int/Vt/
country_view.cfm?CountryCode=IN)

Activity 7.2.7
Promoting Voting
Students research different organizations that aim to increase voter turnout.

Suggested resources are listed below.

1. Rock the Vote, a campaign started to promote greater youth en—
gagement in elections and to create an ownership in the political
processes in the United States (http://www.rockthevote.org/)

2. Project Vote (http://projectvote.org/?gclid=CM—v2cWc9aYCFQF
MSQOddRJVBg)

5. Native Vote, a voting campaign run by the National Congress of
American Indians (http://www.nativevote.org/)

4. You Don’t Need a Home to Vote, a campaign to increase voting in
the homeless population (http://www.nationalhomeless.org/proj—
ects/vote/index.html)

Students should spend time perusing these and other websites. They should
then decide on one in particular to research in depth. Students will create
a media documentary or write a paper that uses information from their re—

search [0 CDCOUI‘EIgC VOICI‘ turnout.

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