Friday, October 3, 2008
The Student Legislative Awareness Board, or SLAB, broke its record of registering students to vote on campus. So far, SLAB has registered about 700 students, which almost triples the 250 students it registered last year. Ryan Lawler, Brolingbrook, Ill., senior and SLAB community affairs director, said SLAB had two weeks left to register students to vote. He said SLAB had not yet collected registration forms from seven greek houses and residence halls.
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The number of registered voters set new record
With several groups registering as 500-600 voters each...the trick is to now engage those students to get to the polls and to vote! Here we go!
-Gray SLAB co-director
The number of registered voters set new record
Obviously this is fantastic, and voter registration is undoubtedly a good thing, but this is hardly surprising as 2008 is a Presidential election year.
The number of registered voters set new record
The previous high mark was during a presidential election year as well, go rain on someone else's parade.
The number of registered voters set new record
Of course it's common sense, I objected to the other comment because they didn't realize that the article was refering to the 2004 election (once again, a presidential election). I'm just doing by job, and I'd rather not take criticism from people that don't know what they're talking about.
The number of registered voters set new record
In all fairness Ryan, and I'm somebody who has done a lot of work with a couple of groups to register voters in the last month, the fact that it is the year of a presidential election in itself tends to motivate people, especially when compared to the last mid-term elections, in which plenty of students registered, but not nearly as much as this time around.
It isn't a knock. It's just kind of common sense.
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