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Memorandum outlines how administrators can encourage voter turnout
Author(s) -
Sutton Halley
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dean and provost
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7587
pISSN - 1527-6562
DOI - 10.1002/dap.30781
Subject(s) - memorandum , voting , turnout , political science , democracy , public administration , duty , public relations , group voting ticket , medical education , law , medicine , politics
While the rate of college students voting is on the rise in recent years, the turnout of college students at the polls remains significantly lower than college students who register to vote. For the 2020 presidential election, occurring in the midst of the COVID‐19 pandemic, voting may be even more difficult. The Institute for Democracy and Higher Education at Tufts University has put together a memorandum of best practices, designed to help higher education administrators encourage and help students to exercise their civic duty to vote. “Absent interventions, the removal of barriers to voting by mail, and education, voting rates for students will be low in 2020,” according to the writers of the memorandum.