Student government leaders at Mercer University in Macon are working in partnership with College Hill Macon and TurboVote to engage students in elections. In April, they invited Sam Novey, National Student Vote Challenge founder to give the keynote address at their annual Civic Engagement Symposium. His remarks, edited below for brevity, explore some of the […]
Article · June 18, 2015 by Sam Novey
In May, Knight Foundation announced $1 million in new support for TurboVote, a nonprofit service designed to modernize voting and increase citizen participation. Below, Sam Novey, director of partnerships for TurboVote, writes about voter sign-up efforts associated with National Voter Registration Day. Photo credit: Flickr user Neighborhood Centers, Inc. On Tuesday, Americans nationwide will celebrate the second annual National Voter […]
Article · September 23, 2013 by Sam Novey
In May, Knight Foundation announced $1 million in new support for TurboVote, a nonprofit service designed to modernize voting and increase citizen participation. Below, Marie-Fatima Hyacinthe, partnerships associate at TurboVote, and Sam Novey, director of partnerships, write about how increasing student voter participation builds deeper engagement on college campuses. Photo credit: Empower Our Neighborhoods. At TurboVote we build technology that […]
Article · July 15, 2013 by Sam Novey