VoteBIG Voter Engagement Week

Dates: September 21st – September 25th

Led by BU’s Undergraduate Student Government, BU Votes, the BU Community Service Center, and Boston Intercollegiate Government, VoteBIG is a week-long intercollegiate campaign that informs and empowers students within the Greater Boston area to vote. VoteBIG features virtual voter drives, voter registration competitions, speaker series with Massachusetts leaders, and concerted social media efforts to spread voter information. By the end of this week, young people will be equipped with the knowledge and drive to elevate their voices with their votes. Check out our events below:  

VoteBIG CSC Phone bank

Dates: September 24th 5:00pm – 7:00pm EST

Led by BU’s Undergraduate Student Government, BU Votes, the BU Community Service Center, and Boston Intercollegiate Government, VoteBIG is a week-long intercollegiate campaign that informs and empowers students within the Greater Boston area to vote. VoteBIG features virtual voter drives, voter registration competitions, speaker series with Massachusetts leaders, and concerted social media efforts to spread voter information. By the end of this week, young people will be equipped with the knowledge and drive to elevate their voices with their votes. We provide a short training at the beginning, log-in information, and lists for phone banking. You’ll need a computer and phone to participate, and we’ll send you Zoom information on how to join when you RSVP. Register to volunteer HERE. ​

The Safe Elections Network

Student Poll Worker Opportunitites

The Bay State is facing poll worker shortages, and many elections officials are overwhelmed. The Massachusetts Student Poll Worker Corps recruits and trains students to serve as poll workers this fall, connecting trained students to officials in real-time, and also growing a reserve who can jump in as shortages appear in the weeks and even days before an election. For more information or to sign up, click HERE. ​

Vote.org

Vote.org is an online resource dedicated to making political engagement simple and user friendly. Vote.org offers a variety of services, including:

• Checking voter registration
• Registering to vote
• Requesting mail-in ballots
• Requesting Absentee  ballots
• Voting Rights and Proceedures
• Voting and COVID-19 information
• And much, much more!

As stated on the About page of their website: “Vote.org is the largest 501(c)(3) non-profit, non-partisan voting registration and get out the vote (GOTV) technology platform in America. It has registered more than 3.3 million new voters, verified 8.2 million voters’ registration status, and has helped over 30 million website users by providing registration links and deadlines, polling location details, and other essential voting information for each state. Vote.org also leverages its SMS-based GOTV program each year, targeting low-propensity voters in regularly scheduled and special elections. To turn out the vote among young people and people of color, Vote.org partners with corporations and other organizations in the civic space, including Gannett Media Group’s USA Today, Vote Save America, and The Andrew Goodman Foundation. Vote.org has also launched exciting new partnerships in 2020 with The Webby Awards, NAACP Youth Coalition, GLSEN, wikiHow, and Young Entertainment Activists. Many of their corporate partners have signed on to Vote.org’s Election Day campaign, launched in 2018, which commits them to giving their employees paid time off to vote on Election Day. To date, 500 companies have signed the pledge.” The easiest act of civic engagement is honoring your right to vote. So what are you waiting for? Visit Vote.org today.