MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO-OP: Student leaders start voter registration drive

MEDIA ADVISORY/PHOTO-OP:
Student leaders start voter registration drive

Vanderbilt University College Democrats and Republicans and student government leaders are joining forces to kick off a voter registration drive in Nashville Thursday, April 20.

Registration tables will be set up in front of Rand Hall at Vanderbilt University at 11 a.m. to kick off the voter drive that could be used as a model for a National Collegiate Voter Registration Drive.

Plans call for student organizers to work with college leaders throughout the country to start a get-out-the-vote effort that will duplicate the Vanderbilt model 60 days before the November presidential election.

The bipartisan effort is aimed at not only getting students to vote in the upcoming presidential election, but also staff, faculty and area residents as well. Students will work with the League of Women Voters to register people to vote throughout the Nashville area.

WHAT:	Voter Registration Drive Tables will be set up on campus to register students, faculty and staff.
WHERE:	Vanderbilt University The wall in front of Rand Hall (If it rains, the tables will be set up inside the Sarratt Student Center near the Varsity Market.)
WHEN:	Thursday, April 20 11 a.m.-1.p.m.
WHO:	George Beighley, College Democrats president; Dan Eberhart, College Republicans chairman; Pamela Ferguson, Student Government Association (SGA) president; Michael Strong, Interhall organizational director

(Media can park in the visitor spaces on the circle at Kirkland Hall.)

Media Contact: Emily Pearce (615) 322-NEWS
emily.pearce@vanderbilt.edu

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