{"id":30707,"date":"2018-09-25T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/creator\/?p=30707"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:29:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:29:05","slug":"harnessing-the-power-of-young-people-in-the-voting-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/ideas\/community-stories\/member-spotlight\/harnessing-the-power-of-young-people-in-the-voting-booth","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing the power of young people in the voting booth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every election year, millions of Americans do not take advantage of their right to vote. The statistics are starkest among millennials, who are more likely than not to stay home on Election Day. In the hotly contested general election in 2016,<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2017\/05\/12\/black-voter-turnout-fell-in-2016-even-as-a-record-number-of-americans-cast-ballots\/ft_17-05-12_voterturnout_millennialnew\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">only 49 percent of young people cast a vote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Research shows that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/women-and-young-voters-will-decide-the-2018-elections-if-they-actually-vote\/2018\/03\/03\/3e3c614c-1f06-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.7e943483e591\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">younger voters have a serious chance to sway the upcoming midterm elections<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but only if they show up at the polls.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Getting young people informed about their choices and turning out at the polls are three organizations whose leaders have set up shop at WeWork locations across the U.S.: Rock the Vote, BallotReady, and Generation Citizen.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rockthevote.org\/\">Rock the Vote<\/a> is the most recognizable name in the bunch. And it makes sense: The nonprofit organization, whose aim is to build political power for young voters, has been in existence for nearly 30 years. It is perhaps best known for its<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-lists\/10-major-moments-in-rock-the-vote-history-15453\/aerosmith-list-their-bill-of-rights-1992-37695\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">longstanding partnership with MTV<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, beginning in 1990 when its founder, a former music executive, teamed up with labels, artists, and other activists to fight censorship in the industry.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rock the Vote\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kFGlE44xuTs\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">first PSA featured Madonna<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> draped in little but an American flag, cheekily warning viewers that if they don\u2019t vote, they\u2019d get a spanking. In 2014,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rijpU5yD55I\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its campaign featured rapper Lil John<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> asking voters to #TurnOutForWhat, a play on his hit party single with DJ Snake, \u201cTurn Up For What.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYoung voters of the nineties look way different from the young voters we\u2019re engaging with now,\u201d says Jen Tolentino, Rock the Vote\u2019s director of policy and civic tech. \u201cIn the nineties, our number-one partnership was with MTV. That\u2019s not really the case anymore considering how young people consume media and how they interact with each other and entertainment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to reach young people where they are, Rock the Vote, which has offices are in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/buildings\/culver-city--los-angeles--CA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WeWork Culver City<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in Los Angeles, builds unique campaigns by partnering with wide range of companies. In 2016, Rock the Vote<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/3\/23\/11292346\/tinder-rock-the-vote-presidential-candidates\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">teamed up with Tinder<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to help millennials learn about issues and to determine the right candidate to back. This year it<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/personal-profiles\/rock-vote-wework-make-registering-super-simple\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">partnered with WeWork<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to make registering to vote as simple as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-30713\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/Rock-the-Vote-1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30713\"\/><figcaption>Jen Tolentino, Rock the Vote\u2019s director of policy and civic tech, says how they reach young people is constantly changing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign\u2019s hashtag, #TruthToPower, seemed to work with its targeted demographic. According to Tolentino, Rock the Vote\u2019s voter registration numbers were around 1.7 million across their platform. An impressive 81 percent of them turned out to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalvoterregistrationday.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Voter Registration Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on September 25, Rock the Vote has joined forces with HBO, as well as with American Eagle Outfitters, for a nonpartisan campaign called \u201cDemocracy Class.\u201d Through this initiative, young people will learn about the history of voting and its importance, and be able to pre-register and register to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"ready-for-whos-on-the-ballot\"class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><strong>Ready for who\u2019s on the ballot<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ballotready.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">BallotReady<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> believes that<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/younginnovators\/young-innovators-alex-niemczewski-and-aviva-rosman-of-ballot-ready\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">providing nonpartisan election information is an essential piece of the voting puzzle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The company, which operates out of Chicago\u2019s<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/buildings\/grant-park--chicago--IL\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WeWork Grant Park<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, created a mobile-friendly online voter guide that provides information to users from the top of the ballot to the bottom, depending on where they are registered to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in 2015, BallotReady was born when Aviva Rosman called her friend Alex Niemczewski to ask her to vote for her in an upcoming race for the local school council\u2014an election she ended up winning by 16 votes. This prompted Niemczewski, then a graduate student at the University of Chicago, to create a website in advance of the 2014 midterm elections. She knew who she was going to vote for at the top of the ticket, but the more local races were different story. So Niemczewski and Rosman filled in the blanks.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen we started working on it, everyone we talked to was like, \u2018Oh, I would totally use that,\u2019\u201d says Niemczewski.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After winning some funding from the University of Chicago, they covered Chicago\u2019s elections and created a voter guide for Kentucky. By 2016, BallotReady was covering top-to-bottom races in 12 states, giving details about every race.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnyone in those states could type in their address and see every candidate and referendum on their ballot, so they could stay totally informed,\u201d says Niemczewski.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The creation of each BallotReady guide begins with putting together a list of candidates up for election. That process itself is the biggest challenge for BallotReady.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone size-full wp-image-30714\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2018\/09\/BallotReady-1-800x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30714\"\/><figcaption>Aviva Rosman and Alex Niemczewski of BallotReady believe education is the first step.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Across the country there are over 500,000 elected officials, but there&#8217;s no centralized database of who these people are, what positions they hold, or when they are up for election,\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> says Niemczewski. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to compile our ballots, we need to call counties, send faxes. I&#8217;ve even had to send a check for 50 cents to pay for the printing of a candidate list.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This year,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaninno.com\/chicago\/funding-chicago\/ballotready-raises-1-5m-to-expand-its-voter-guide-platform-nationwide\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after raising $1.5 million in seed funding<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, BallotReady has expanded to 20 full-time employees and covers races in all all 50 states.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere\u2019s no one else doing what we do,\u201d says Niemczewski. \u201cWe care about two things: voters completing their ballots without guessing, and turnout.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like Rock the Vote, BallotReady relies on partnership to reach Millennials, who make up 40 percent of its users. This year, BallotReady has teamed up with the<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.allinchallenge.org\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALL IN Challenge<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a grassroots organization that works on over 400 college campuses in 48 states to get young people to become involved in the democratic process.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cCollege students, a lot of times, they\u2019ve never voted before and don\u2019t realize how long the ballot actually is,\u201d says Niemczewski.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2  id=\"empowering-the-youngest-generation\"class=\"wp-block-heading\"><b><strong>Empowering the youngest generation<\/strong><\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/generationcitizen.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generation Citizen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> might be able to help students by helping provide them with civics education when they are still in high school. In fact, Generation Citizen, which was cofounded in 2009 by New Yorker Scott Warren, the son of a foreign service officer who spent much of his childhood living in East Africa and Latin America. He believes <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wework.com\/creator\/inspiration\/generation-citizen-getting-kids-excited-politics\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">young people learn politics by taking action on real issues they care about<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The group goes even farther, advocating that teenagers as young as 16 should be able to vote in local elections. One town in Maryland has already lowered the legal voting age by two years, and this fall communities from Washington, D.C. to Golden, Colorado may adopt a similar policy.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGiven the dismal voter turnout rate, we need innovative solutions to help improve our democracy,\u201d says Warren. \u201cWe think that this could be one of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Generation Citizen\u2019s main goal is to get young people involved in the democratic process by sponsoring events where they are asked what they would like to change about their city, their school, or their state. Local issues students have focused on include police brutality, affordable housing, the opioid crisis, and even school cafeterias.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cVoting and getting out the vote is important,\u201d says Warren, who has WeWork offices in five cities. \u201cBut you have to get young people excited about democracy before they can actually vote.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rock the Vote faces a similar challenge, says Tolentino, who says her organization aims to convince young people, particularly in communities of color, that their vote is important.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhat we have seen to be really effective within this generation has been messaging around the importance of community,\u201d says Tolentino.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Topics that young voters are rallying around include gun violence, criminal justice reform, and immigration, to name a few.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFor us, making that direct connection between issues that they care really deeply about and how they can leverage their vote to build political power for themselves and their community and hold elected officials accountable,\u201d says Tolentino.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Warren agrees, adding that young people can help change the system.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think there is a widespread recognition that politics as usual doesn\u2019t work and that we need something different,\u201d he says. \u201cYoung people can claim a new narrative about what democracy can look like.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennials have a serious chance to sway the upcoming midterm elections, but only if they show up at the 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