MURFREESBORO — With
fewer than 80 days remaining before Election Day, MTSU will offer new and
returning college students and others an opportunity to register on campus.
The American Association of University Women’s Murfreesboro
chapter will sponsor voter registration from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 22,
at MTSU’s Paul W. Martin Honors College Building. A printable campus map is
available at http://tinyurl.com/MTSUParkingMap.
The MTSU
American Democracy Project states that only 44 percent of MTSU students were
registered to vote in 2012 and only 62 percent of those registered cast votes
in that year’s elections.
Those
statistics come from MTSU’s participation in the National Study of Learning,
Voting and Engagement, which is supported by the Center for Information and
Research on Civic Learning & Engagement at Tufts University in Medford,
Massachusetts. MTSU was one of 600 institutions nationwide to take part in the
study.
Additionally, Tennessee ranks dead last among all 50 states
in voter turnout, according to the most recent report by the Pew Charitable
Trusts.
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