“The biggest issues that come up are related to accessibility and a general sort of understanding,” says Andrea Zayas Conner, a national Voter Friendly Campus intern and student at the University of California, Los Angeles. “People know ‘I can vote on my campus, but I don’t know how’ and ‘I go to school, but it’s not my home county.’”
Conner believes it’s “super-duper helpful” to get students this information. At UCLA, she says, VFC works with a nonpartisan voting coalition connected to the school’s student government; other schools work with additional campus organizations like residential life and Greek life to help get the word out, leaning heavily on social media to do so.
“Trying to work through orgs within the school is a really good way to get info,” Conner explains. “People pay more attention to that than, you know, an announcement from the state itself.”
While a lot of this work is…