State Specific Student Voter Walkthrough Template

This is a simple yet comprehensive template to walk students through the voting process in a state of your choosing. You can refer to our Navigating Digital Voter Guides and Civic Technology or the campus-created Columbia Votes 50 State Sheets to determine how to customize this for your state’s context.

This presentation can be customized to fit your context and embedded on any website or learning management system. Additionally, this template can be used for any other presentations where your team or colleagues present on the voting process, including any in class presentations mentioned in the Faculty Champions Guide.

You can embed this presentation onto most websites and learning management systems. For example, this is how to embed it onto a Canvas page. The same process will work with any platform that uses an HTML editor. 

We encourage you to adapt this resource to your campus context and make any changes needed, including through the design and language. However, please make sure to include this citation somewhere on your adapted resource: 

This is a resource of Ask Every Student, a project of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, the Campus Vote Project, NASPA, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition. Learn more about Ask Every Student at studentvoting.org.

This guide was created in collaboration with the Ask Every Student Codesigner Campus Cohort, with special thanks to Columbia College Chicago, Stony Brook University, University of Texas at Austin, and Northwestern University. 

The Civic Engagement Packet

One of our key insights that we’ve gathered is that even if you’re able to reach every student in a voter registration drive, the forms will often contain errors that render the applications unusable. Successfully following each state’s specific laws and rules can be very difficult and creating an effective backend system for application processing and follow up is a huge lift.

Another big challenge when it comes to voter registration is making sure that your efforts are inclusive of all students and allow paths for democratic engagement outside of voting. The Civic Engagement Packet allows students to opt out of voter registration without needing to explain their reasons, but still engages them in a variety of options to plug into civic engagement opportunities on your campus.

The packet contains: a cover page that can help you organize and file forms with ease and allow students to opt in or out, files for the National Voter Registration Act form and forms from all eligible states, and an exit ticket for students to keep with voting next steps and civic engagement engagement opportunities.

We encourage you to adapt this resource to your campus context and make any changes needed, including through the design and language. However, please make sure to include this citation somewhere on your adapted resource: 

This is a resource of Ask Every Student, a project of the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, the Campus Vote Project, NASPA, and the Students Learn Students Vote Coalition. Learn more about Ask Every Student at studentvoting.org.

Note: This resource was created for an in-person voter registration process.