News Center, WABI cover UMaine UVote efforts
NewsCenter Maine and WABI (Channel 5) covered UMaine UVote’s efforts to register students to vote on Sept. 24 — National Voter Registration Day. UMaine UVote is part of a national nonpartisan group leading the Campus Election Engagement Project, designed to increase the number of young people registered to vote. “In general, national election statistics, and our own, personal, university statistics, the 18 to 25 age bracket votes at the lowest turnout of all age brackets for voters. So, it’s really important that we have as many students as possible turning out to the polls,” student volunteer Abigail Despres told WABI. Tuesday night’s preliminary count indicated at least 150 students registered to vote.