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Help get UW registered to vote!!!
Posted by Office of Government Relations on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 9:35 PM

Attention Everyone! ARE YOU READY?

We are going to run the biggest Voter Registration Campaign the UW has ever seen! Are you ready to make Olympia hear us? We may not have thousands of dollars to give to legislators, but we do have our VOTES! The ASUW and several other campus organizations are gearing up to register as many students as possible to vote and we need your help! Let's do this! We're almost 42,000 strong as a University, let's make Olympia know it!


HOW DO YOU GET INVOLVED?

Sign up for one of the many jobs available. It's going to take every one of us in order to make this happen. Find something that looks fun or interesting to you and do it!

Why? Get experience running a campaign and be a part of the movement to change the way legislators see college voters!


SIGN UP TO BE A PART OF THE CAMPAIGN LEADERSHIP TEAM

You will get a free T-shirt!


Materials Coordinator (need 3 people, first two weeks of September )- Put together packets of voter registration forms to distribute to various campus groups


Volunteer Coordinator (need 1 person, starting now) - In charge of contacting and recruiting volunteers, creating a volunteer recruitment form for all tables


Tabling Coordinator (need 3 people) - In charge of setting up tables, and signing up volunteers to table


Media Coordinator (need 1 person)- Do you like media and are looking for a future job with the Daily? Be in charge of creating a media plan, contacting the Daily about all voter reg events, writing press releases for local newspapers; Publicola, Ruckus


Social Media Coordinator (1 person)- Facebook campaign, update facebook, twitter


Database Coordinator (need 2 people) - in charge of photocopying all forms and sending them to the Data Entry Collection Center


Visibility/Marketing Coordinator (need 1 person) - in charge of creating all posters, on campus displays (vote bots, giant arrows, giant cardboard voter reg form), stickers, Flash Mobs


Class Rap Coordinator (1 person)- Need someone to coordinate 3 days of class presentations, Sept 29, 30, and October 1st.


Video -(1 person) WHO KNOWS HOW TO MAKE A VIDEO? - Need someone who knows how to make videos to create a viral educational video about how to register students to vote and the importance.


Events Coordinator (need 2 people) - Do you like Event Planning? Organize and plan an initiative forum with the Washington Bus to educate students about the initiatives on the ballot this year.


OR if you are involved in a group on campus would you want to be a group organizer? You would be in charge of registering the members of your group or organization.


OR

SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER TO TABLE: come table for a few hours during the last two weeks of September!



NOW WHAT NEXT?

Email me at asuwogrc@uw.edu with what you want to get involved with and I will follow-up with a job description and timeline.


Let's do this!


Katie Stultz

Legislative Programming Coordinator

ASUW Office of Governmental Relations

206-304-1854

asuwogrc@uw.edu


I leave you with this thought......


"It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot."

-Harry S. Truman

Legislative Session Wrap Up
Posted by Jono on Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 4:15 PM
The Legislative Session is now over, the chips have fallen and it's all done. Thursday the 29th, this Thursday, we will be having our Post Legislative Session Forum with lobbyists, students, State level administrators and Legislators. Speaker Frank Chopp will be one of five panelists.

The event starts at 6:30pm in the HUB auditorium.

I hope to see you all there!