By Elizabeth Faragi
When turning 18, some people rush to register to vote. Others never register to vote or look at the polls. Some register to vote but never exercise their right. Continue reading UMD students are registered to vote. But are they voting?
By Anastasia Merkulova After waiting hours to vote, some University of Maryland students believe the campus should implement more efficient voting protocols. Large crowds of students voted in the presidential election at Adele H. Stamp Student Union on Tuesday, some standing in line for hours. Students had to vote at assigned polling locations on election day, which was likely Stamp or College Park City Hall … Continue reading UMD students gripe with on-campus voting process
By Maristela Romero Civic engagement groups increased their presence across campus to provide information and resources for casting votes as a last hoorah before the midterm elections Tuesday. The Student Government Association (SGA) has particularly intensified their efforts through their coalition TerpsVote and by implementing a new initiative: handing out free envelopes and stamps at their office for students to mail in their absentee ballots. … Continue reading Election countdown has campus civic engagement in full force
By Maristela Romero Political groups across the local and state community are gearing up to encourage a younger demographic to register to vote as the Maryland gubernatorial election nears. Gov. Larry Hogan, who is the second Republican in Maryland to be elected as governor in the last 50 years, is campaigning for re-election against Democratic candidate Ben Jealous while on and off-campus organizations target young … Continue reading Efforts to increase the youth vote this November go beyond campus limits
By Charlotte Dulany Jonathan Allen was elected the University of Maryland’s student body president with 74 percent of the student vote on Friday. Allen ran with Envision Maryland and defeated Humza Yahya, a junior accounting and information systems major, of Recognize UMD. Envision Maryland won all contested seats in the election. Allen, SGA’s former speaker of the legislature, is a junior government and politics major … Continue reading Envision Maryland sweeps all contested seats in SGA election
Photos by Jillian Atelsek Only 66 percent of eligible voters cast a ballot in the presidential election of 2012, according to electionproject.org. Two on-campus groups at the University of Maryland are working hard to bring those numbers up. MaryPIRG, the Maryland Public Interest Research Group, and LCSL, the center for Leadership and Community Service-Learning, teamed up last week to put on a special event for students. … Continue reading Voter registration drive aims to prepare students for Election Day
