NextGen America Contacts Thousands of Young Voters on National Voter Registration Day

Youth voting organization registers, pledges, and engages thousands of young people on National Voter Registration Day

Washington, D.C. — Today, NextGen America is celebrating National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) by engaging thousands of young people across seven key states and registering and pledging them to vote. Overall, NextGen is contacting thousands of young voters in a single day through in-person events, calls and texts, and digital activations.

NextGen’s NVRD in-person events are happening at over 20 college campuses nationwide and include free swag giveaways, food, and a ‘Hot Ones’- themed event at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the Hot-Ones event, hosts will ask Temple University students to grab a wing and answer increasingly ‘spicy’ questions on their voter registration status, current issues, and how to create a government that represents them. Additional campuses for this year’s NVRD events include University of Houston, in Houston Texas, UNC-Chapel Hill, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona among other locations.

“NextGen America is excited to celebrate National Voter Registration Day across the country today,” NextGen America President Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez said. “One of the key challenges to youth voter participation is registration, and NextGen’s work today, and all year long, is critical to growing young voters’ power. As we look to 2024, it’s essential that we do all we can to make sure young people have the education, resources, and information they need to turn out, vote, and create meaningful change in their communities.”

To complement NextGen’s on-the-ground youth mobilization efforts, NextGen’s National Distributed team also hosted digital voter registration events. These events featured hundreds of volunteers reaching out through texting, phonebanking, and social media organizing to thousands of young people.

In 2020, NextGen utilized NVRD as part of its overall voter registration efforts that registered over 122,000 young people for the general election – contributing to the largest youth voter turnout in American history. Leading up to 2024, NextGen aims to contact millions of young voters to build on the momentum of young people eager to participate in our democracy.

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About NextGen America

NextGen America is the leading national organization for engaging young people through voter education, registration and mobilization. We invite 18-to-35 year olds — the largest and most diverse generation in American history — into our democracy to ensure our government works for them and to find new solutions to the dire challenges facing our society and the world. Since 2013, NextGen America has registered more than 1.3 million young voters and contacted 9.6 million young eligible voters during the historic 2022 midterm elections.