The March was one day.
Becoming a Registered Voter is a gift you give yourself,
your community, and your country year after year.
Thousands register to vote at March for Our Lives demonstrations across the country
“People are really understanding the power of the vote and that’s what’s really motivating a lot of them.
They’re figuring
out the importance and power of civic engagement.”
HeadCount, a nonpartisan organization that registers young voters at concerts, partnered with the students behind March for Our Lives and sent close to 1,000 volunteers to register marchers
HeadCount spokesman Aaron Ghitelman said volunteers, who were dressed in neon yellow or neon green shirts, were coming back with 10 to 20 filled-out voter forms each. And the young people who filled out those forms are from all over the country…
[Including marches from across the country], As of Sunday, Ghitelman said they had registered approximately 4,800 people across the country. www.nbcnews.com/...
Every youth vote in every state matters.
Now that they are registered, we need to reach out to make sure they understand the value of down ballot voting, too.
#NeverAgain activists have made it clear that this weekend's March For Our Lives was just the beginning of their movement, and one of their clearest goals is to change gun control laws through voting.
HeadCount says their volunteers registered more than 4,800 new voters at 30 March for Our Lives events nationwide on Saturday. And that number may end up being even higher.
"Those numbers are solely ink on paper," HeadCount spokesman Aaron Ghitelman told CNN. "That's not even counting people who may have gone online to register." www.cnn.com/...
We are aiming high 2018.
HeadCount will also build on the March for our Lives momentum through new initiatives, Bernstein said, such as a guidebook for students and teachers explaining how to register young Americans in schools. Bernstein says he hopes their efforts will inspire more high schools to make voter registration available to their students, with an ultimate goal of having 90% of American high schools providing voter registration by June.
“We definitely think there’s a possibility for setting off a movement, post-March for Our Lives, where if a school isn’t doing voter registration, they’re going to have to explain why,” Bernstein said. “So that’s how we turn the 4,000 voters we registered yesterday into a movement to register 4 million. There are 4 million newly eligible registered voters turning 18 this year, and there’s absolutely no reason that all of them can’t have an opportunity to register to vote easily. mic.com/...
We are not passively waiting for a big blue wave.
We are creating the big blue wave.
Be the wave you want to see in the world.
I am a drop in the big blue wave! Come join me!