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Voter registration and engagement efforts on CUNY campuses

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Students share their observations of voter registration and engagement efforts on their respective CUNY campuses. They describe various initiatives and challenges in getting students to participate in the voting process.

Akeem Pollock mentions polling booths and registration opportunities at York College
Tahisha Fields discusses club-led voter engagement activities at Baruch College
Salimatou Doumbouya highlights USS-sponsored get-out-the-vote rallies and collaborations with CUNY Votes
Students note the challenge of encouraging registered students to actually vote

Eric Dinowitz

1:35:46

Thanks.

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And lastly, I I know Alexis, you're actually involved with CUNY in registering people, but the other 3 on the panel, have you seen some of the voter registration and engagement efforts on your campus, things that were testified to today?

1:36:00

Have you personally seen those?

Akeem Pollock

1:36:03

Yes.

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So at at York, you we we all especially when it comes closer to the elections, they set up polling votes, and you have people you can talk to to register, to vote, and all of those things.

1:36:16

So they're very they're very effective in that.

1:36:19

You know, you have signage everywhere.

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But again, students end up not doing it because they just don't know you know, they they they really just don't understand the entire process.

1:36:29

You know?

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And I think that's that's the problem.

Tahisha Fields

1:36:35

For Baruque, they have their clubs that are doing, and they have their little competitions.

1:36:40

I know USG and MGSA are doing a big thing.

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They do it every election year.

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So there are different opportunities on our campus for voter registration and voter engagement.

1:36:53

I think it's more about making sure if they are registered to make sure they actually are voting.

1:36:59

So they are allowing it to do on Baruque on this campus.

1:37:02

But I think they're trying to speak to them like, yes, you are registered, but make sure this is a time that you need to go and vote.

1:37:09

So that's what's happening on my campus.

Salimatou Doumbouya

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From the USS perspective, we hold get out vote rallies.

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We hold staplings on different campuses, and we also offer monetary and non monetary sponsorships and cost sponsorship to different clubs, organizations that want to engage in these activities.

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And we also work with CUNY votes from time to time.

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