{"id":6,"date":"2016-04-27T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/?p=6"},"modified":"2016-05-05T08:12:20","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T08:12:20","slug":"voter-educationregistration-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/2016\/04\/27\/voter-educationregistration-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter Education\/Registration Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-434 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/files\/2016\/04\/Vote-300x96.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/files\/2016\/04\/Vote-300x96.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/files\/2016\/04\/Vote-676x216.jpg 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/files\/2016\/04\/Vote.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nDuring the 2016 Black History Festival, we aided the Voter Education and Registration Drive as it actively encouraged the Carlisle community to become more politically engaged.\u00a0Acknowledging that the greater community may not of been fully aware of the extent of their civic duty as eligible voters, the Voter Education and Registration Drive wanted\u00a0to equip the community with the education needed\u00a0to exercise their full citizenship and express their own political agency. Our duties\u00a0as volunteer voting advocates were\u00a0centered around drawing attention to the voter stand, providing concise information about the registration process and expressing the power of ordinary people can have on a local\u00a0and national level through voting. \u00a0After that, we then\u00a0aided those who were interested in the registration process fill out the official documentation needed to register. As we emphasized to all who asked what was the importance of their vote, historically, people of color\u00a0have been disenfranchised and marginalized from the political process. The fight to vote was a tremendous victory for people of color as it gave them a stake in the politics of this country and through such, a voice in which they could use to be heard when combating the injustices the United States government system has had against people of color.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P9VdyPbbzlI&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>After the Black History Festival, we were in agreement that the Voter Education and Registration Drive was an important initiative that should continue to persist and develop in Carlisle. In the\u00a0one day of we worked at\u00a0the drive, it was evident\u00a0that the number of\u00a0people who were unfamiliar with the political process\u00a0was concerning.\u00a0The need of a revitalized effort to educate the community about the importance of voting was clear.\u00a0\u00a0We came to the conclusion that the Voter Education and Registration Drive could be sustained if expanded beyond an occasional initiative, but rather transformed it into a long-term program. A long-term voter education and registration program would\u00a0be able to travel to different schools, community organizations, and events as a means to encourage people to vote and explain the importance of engaging in politics, along with its history in regard to marginalized groups of people. In addition to making the\u00a0initiative a long-term program, the formation of\u00a0workshops for the program&#8217;s volunteers would also be needed as the means of equipping volunteer voting advocates with fundamental knowledge on politics to better educate a\u00a0wider community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Karl Lyn &#8217;18<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Kennedy Lewis &#8217;19<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Sofina Odero &#8217;18<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 2016 Black History Festival, we aided the Voter Education and Registration Drive as it actively encouraged the Carlisle community to become more politically engaged.\u00a0Acknowledging that the greater community may not of been fully aware of the extent of their civic duty as eligible voters, the Voter Education and Registration Drive wanted\u00a0to equip the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128797],"tags":[7061,1164,11524,20,2765,2574],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claiming-citizenship-and-reclaiming-histories","tag-carlisle","tag-community","tag-dickinson-college","tag-education","tag-social-justice","tag-voting","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/socialjustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}