Partners & Resources
Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Our goal is to help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote. Check out some of our work:
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State Student Guides: State-specific guides for students that include Registration Deadlines and Election Dates, Official Election Websites, Register at School or Home, What Type of ID Do I Need to Register, What Type of ID Do I Need to Vote, Where Do I Vote, How Can I Vote and more!
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Student Voter Engagement Handbook: This handbook includes information about Barriers to Student Registration and Voting, Getting Started: Making Your Campus Voter Friendly, Meeting with College Administrators, Meeting with Local Elections Officials, Strategies to Raise Awareness of Upcoming Elections, Registering Students to Vote, Voter Education Campaigns, Help Students Make a Voting Plan, For Student Organizers: Road to Election Day Timeline, Sustaining Your Student Engagement Efforts and more!
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Youth Voting Rights: We are dedicated to supporting increased access to the democratic process, specifically highlighting and tackling the barriers that young people and students face. We work to help young people gain access to the polls in a variety of ways including hosting the Youth Voting Rights Working Group with support from Rock the Vote and CIRCLE.
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We're accepting campuses & fellows! Reach out to your Michigan State Director, Sumaiya Ahmed Sheikh, at sahmed@campusvoteproject.org to join the fight to institutionalize voting on campuses!
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Additional Partners & Resources
Michigan Department of State:
Visit www.michigan.gov/vote for all Michigan voter needs!
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VOTE BY MAIL – All registered voters have the right to vote by mail. Get an application.
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Campus Election Engagement Project:
Campus Election Engagement Project (CEEP) is a national nonpartisan project that helps administrators, faculty, staff, and student leaders at America’s colleges and universities engage students in federal, state, and local elections. Watch this video to learn more about them. Watch this video to learn more about them.
Rise is led by more than 25,000 students and supporters from colleges and universities across the nation. We also partner with student governments, groups, and associations to strengthen our united advocacy work. Ensuring the cost of higher education never prevents students from pursuing their dreams in college and beyond. Watch this video to learn more about them.
Michigan League of Conservation Voters:
Michigan LCV is the only nonpartisan political organization in Michigan with protecting your land, air, and water at the center of our work.
League of Women Voters of Michigan:
We envision a democracy where every person has the desire, the right, the knowledge and the confidence to participate. We believe in the power of women to create a more perfect democracy. The League is proud to be nonpartisan, neither supporting nor opposing candidates or political parties at any level of government, but always working on vital issues of concern to members and the public. Watch this video to learn more about them.
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PIRGIM is an advocate for the public interest. We speak out for a healthier, safer world in which we’re freer to pursue our own individual well-being and the common good.
The problems we address aren’t progressive or conservative — they’re just problems that no one should tolerate in an age of great abundance and technological progress. That’s why, with your help, we’re working to find common ground around commonsense ideas.
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge strives to change civic culture and institutionalize democratic engagement activities and programs on college campuses, making them a defining feature of campus life. Watch this video to learn more about them.
The Scholars Strategy Network is an organization of university-based scholars who are committed to using research to improve policy and strengthen democracy. Watch this video to learn more about them.
Democracy Works is a team of software developers, public policy wonks, and civic organizers building the tools needed to upgrade the infrastructure of our democracy. Watch this video to learn more about them.
Science Rising is a nationwide nonpartisan movement fighting for science, justice, and equity in our democracy. We launched in 2018 with a series of actions, events, and activities organized by groups across the country. Watch this video to learn more about them.
The Andrew Goodman Foundation:
The Andrew Goodman Foundation works to make young voices and votes a powerful force in democracy. We support youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives on campuses across the country with mini-grants to select institutions of higher learning and other financial assistance to student leaders. Join us as we inspire more young people to pursue social change work, activate important lessons of the past, and sustain today’s effective social action. Watch this video to learn more about them.
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Institute for Democracy and Higher Education:
The Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE), part of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, serves as a leading venue for research, resources, and advocacy on college student political learning and engagement in democratic practice. Through research, resource development, and convening, we strive to inform and shift college and university priorities, practices, and culture to strengthen democracy and advance social and political equity. Watch this video to learn more about them.
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Election Imperatives – our report on 10 data-backed recommendations for campuses looking to get students engaged in political action.
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NSLVE (“N-Solve”) – our national voting study on U.S. college student registration and voting – here is the 2018 national report.
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Politics 365 – IDHE’s writing on themes we’ve seen on campuses with unexpectedly high turnout rates.
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The IDHE Toolkit – we’ll be updating this soon, but here is a quick look at resources for campuses that want to grow their student engagement efforts.
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Michigan Voice is a state-based collaboration formed to improve long-term coordination and communication among 501(c)(3) civic and voter engagement organizations in Michigan. The collaboration’s nonpartisan mission is to engage traditionally underrepresented and marginalized communities (people of color, single women, youth, and low-income individuals) in the democratic process to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative government. The Michigan Voice collaboration works to reduce bias and discrimination and increase diversity and inclusion.
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NASPA is a member-centered association supporting a diverse and passionate network of 15,000 professionals and 1,200 institutions across the globe.
CLDE 2020 is going virtual, click here to register!
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Students Learn Students Vote Coalition:
The Students Learn Students Vote Coalition promotes civic learning and engagement on campuses across the country by providing a series of key steps and information on best practices that institutions can use to create a more voter friendly campus. Watch this video to learn more about them.
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Securing a Polling Location on Campus:
Resources provided by Wayne State University Student Senate & MTV's +1 the Polls campaign.
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A Proposal for the Establishment of an On-Campus Polling Location at Wayne State University
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MTV has teamed up with the Alliance for Youth Organizing, Campus Vote Project, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition to help you successfully bring a new polling place to your college campus. Access resources by clicking here.
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Clerk Engagement
Resources provided by various city clerks.
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Ottawa County:​
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We just launched an election security website, www.miottawa.org/securingthevote
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We also have a great deal of information on our website, including information about absentee voting, and how to find your elected officials and polling places in Ottawa County. All of that can be found on www.miottawa.org/elections
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Ann Arbor:
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The Ann Arbor City Clerk’s Office has an elections website at www.a2gov.org/elections which includes information for student voters in Ann Arbor, as well as an online sign-up for absentee ballots, and a real-time Election Day line tracker. As shared at the meeting in the chat, we have digital “I Voted” stickers that are social media ready at www.a2gov.org/a2votes
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Attached are voting posters that we made specifically to assist residents of dormitories in finding the correct on-campus polling site. Each one was specific to the polling location, but also contained all of the information for all campus. Feel free to share!
