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YOUR VOTE YOUR VOICE

Often when we hear about voting, we hear about Election Day. However, an important component of the voting process occurs before the actual act of voting—voter registration. Young people have the power to break barriers for their peers  trying to engage in the voting process by:

  1. Encouraging others to register to vote
  2. Guiding young voters through the registration process
  3. Serving as a resource for any questions or concerns young voters may have

Below, we offer a guide on how young voters can register people to vote in person, and how to register people to vote digitally.

Learn the Basics

  1. Learn about your state’s voter registration process  and deadlines –  Before you can host a voter registration event, you want to make sure that you feel comfortable with your state’s voter registration process and deadlines. Using this  guide from the Federal Elections Commission, and visit your State Board of Elections Page to learn about the rules for your state and home districts. Many counties and states will have unique rules, so check before speaking with the members of your community.  You might pays special attention to rules associated with:
    1. New Voters
    2. New residents to your area
    3. Those who wish to vote but are unsure if they are allowed.
    4. Rules to register as an absentee
    5. Rules of Day of Voting
  2. Get to know your tools to register – There are many ways to make sure that you and members of your community are registered to vote. Though a myriad of methods, including digital and online registration, as well as printing out registration forms and mailing them in, you can connect individuals with the opportunity to act on their civic power. Each of these methods, however, has its own unique deadlines for participation. Make sure that you are aware of the deadlines for early voting, absentees voting, as well as the rules to register online or in person on election day.
  3. Motivote – Using a unique tool developed for Civic Influencers by Motivote, you can help your friends, colleagues, teammates, classmates and roommates to vote in the November 8th, 2022 midterms. Using your cell phone, visit the Civic Influencers Motivote page and fill out your information.  Create an account on Motivote, and then text  https://bit.ly/3BQShgL to your networks, and they can register or pledge their participation on November 8th.

Digital Voter Registration/Social Media

Civic Influencers uses Motivote to connect young voters with the tools and resources to register to vote and create a voting plan for the upcoming elections. Using their cell phones, young people can visit https://bit.ly/3BQShgL or go to or https://civicinfluencers.motivote.us/invitation/lhysjulien-civicinfluencers-civicinfluencers/  on your desktop.  Once connected with us on Motivotete, we can send registration info directly to your phone.

There are so many approaches when hosting digital voter registration events. Below we provide some suggestions on several social media platforms.

Instagram

      • Host an Instagram live event – where you walk through the steps of how to register to vote. Your followers can ask you any questions  in the live chat. Host several of these throughout the day.
      • Make an Instagram story series – that describes: (1) why people should register to vote, (2) how they can check their voter registration status and (3) how to register to vote. You should say that you are available if anyone has questions about the process.
      • Create an Instagram story video – that describes: the process you went through to register to vote and any barriers you faced and how you overcame them.
      • Create a series of Instagram swipe images in a post – that describes: (1) why people should register to vote, (2) how they can check their voter registration status and (3) how to register to vote.

Twitter

      • Host a Twitter event hour – where you provide fun facts about voter registration and ask questions to your followers about their voter registration.
      • Create a series of tweets – that describes: (1) why people should register to vote, (2) how they can check their voter registration status and (3) how to register to vote.
      • Post a video on your Twitter – that describes the process you went through to register to vote and any barriers you faced and how you overcame them.

Facebook

      • Host a Facebook live event – where you walk through the steps of how to register to vote. Your followers can ask you questions they have in the live chat. Host several of these throughout the day.
      • Make a Facebook story series – that describes: (1) why people should register to vote, (2) how they can check their voter registration status and (3) how to register to vote. You should say that you are available if anyone has questions about the process.
      • Create a Facebook video – that describes the process you went through to register to vote and any barriers you faced and how you overcame them.
      • Create a Facebook post – that describes: (1) why people should register to vote, (2) how they can check their voter registration status and (3) how to register to vote.

TikTok

      • Create a TikTok video – that describes the process you went through to register to vote and any barriers you faced and how you overcame them.
      • Create a TikTok video – that describes: (1) why people should register to vote, (2) how they can check their voter registration status and (3) how to register to vote.
      • Create a TikTok video – that connects current TikTok trends to voter registration.
      • Host a TikTok live event – that highlights one or more of the themes above.
      • Host a TikTok live event – where you walk through the steps of how to register to vote. TYour followers can ask you any questions they have in the live chat. Host several of these throughout the day.

Planning on Talking to people IRL? check out our guidance on In-Person Voter Registration