tom_thinks

If we're going to get Bush out of the White House, we need young people to vote and to help get out that vote. Here's an excerpt from an email I got from the Florida PIRG:

The state PIRGs and George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management, working with the support of the Pew Charitable Trusts, are not only registering over 265,000 young people, we're getting an unprecedented number of them to the polls on election day.

The New Voters Project organizers are working on more than 160 campuses, installing permanent voter registration systems and insuring that every student is asked to vote at least twice. We are also talking to the two-thirds of America's 18-to-24 year-olds who are not on campuses, in part through partnering with over 300 organizations, ranging from church groups to unemployment agencies and companies, to help them register and mobilize their young members and employees.

As registration deadlines pass and November 2nd approaches, the New Voters Project will shift to an intensive GOTV campaign, contacting each of the young voters we have registered through a door-to-door precinct canvass, targeted phone calls, emails, and cell phone text messages, to ensure they get to the polls.

By Election Day, we will have over 3,000 staff and volunteers who will have had over one million peer-to-peer contacts with our target age group.

You can sign up to volunteer with Florida PIRG's New Voters Project by clicking here.

There's only one catch, you've got to be 18-24. So let loose the young people, I have a feeling we're gonna need them.