Armed with clipboards and ballpoint pens, volunteers from a number of organizations have been working with the resilience of postal
workers to register students to vote on campus in time for Tuesday’s voter registration deadline.
The Student Vote Coalition, a student organization alliance of United States Student Association, Oregon Student Association, ASUO, New Voter Project and Oregon Student Public Interest Group, is the largest registration effort on campus.
According to OSA Co-Chair Amy DuFour, the Student Vote Coalition’s goal is to register 7,500 students at the University, while OSA has a goal to register 30,000 students statewide. As of Friday, the coalition had registered 6,000 University students through tabling in residence halls, clipboarding and delivering class raps.
“We’re doing really well,” DuFour said.
DuFour added that the coalition is staffed by 25-30 interns and 10-15 volunteers.
Another organization working to get out the vote is 21st Century Democrats. The group is working to elect progressive candidates “from the state house to the white house,” according to Regional Field Director Maddy Melton. The group’s organization, Young Voter Project Vote Mob, ensures that young progressives are registered to vote. In addition to actually registering students, it verifies that young voters are registered at the correct address by having them sign pledges or promises to vote that contain their voter information, Melton said.
“Our main goal is not registering voters, but to make sure young progressives are registered to vote,” Melton said. “We find that the number one thing that’s disenfranchising young people in Oregon is that they don’t know they have to re-register every time they move.”
Vote Mob’s approximately 80 volunteers have been canvassing since mid-June and have registered about 700 Eugenians, a majority of whom are students at the University or Lane Community College.

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