Democratic Engagement: Voting Basics

Read the pivotal publication from Association of American Colleges and Universities as a call to action for civic learning and democratic engagement.

Campus Compact initiative encouraging students to work at the polls

"We would like to invite any interested faculty, from teaching assistants and adjuncts to tenured professors, to join us in founding nonpartisan national and state-level faculty networks to ensure student voting rights on and off campus."

Remind your students: Fill out the census based on where you would have lived on April 1 had the pandemic not forced online-only learning.

Toolkits available for each of the 50 states.
Source: American Library Association's Government Documents Round Table

"The elections community has been busy producing research into the myriad of issues that touch upon the needs of voting during the pandemic. This page catalogues some of the most prominent of those reports, written by Healthy Elections and other organizations."

Review COVID-19 related election changes, from shifts to vote-by-mail to postponed elections. Compiled by Democracy Works.

"...a nonpartisan, student-led initiative focused on voter and political engagement to increase the knowledge and develop the skills of students to engage in democracy, politics, policymaking, and social action. BGSU Votes is a campus resource for election information, presentations, and political engagement collaborations."