Tuesday, November 4, 2008

GW Votes Delivers

gwvotesOn the eve of one of the most historic elections of recent memory, the GW Student Association’s voter registration initiative – GW Votes – is boasting record numbers.

While the figures have yet to be completely tabulated, SA President Vishal Aswani told WRGW that GW Votes delivered absentee ballots to and registered just around 1,700 GW students. It is by far the most successful year in the voter campaign’s 4 year history.


The process is quite simple: go online, enter the student’s zipcode, download a state election ballot and election rules, and within 36 hours, mail the forms… all on the SA’s dime.


In the days and weeks leading up to tonight’s finale, the initiative had expedited its turn-around times from 36 to 24 hours in hopes of ensuring on-time ballot arrivals to some of the nation’s most important battleground states.


President Aswani noted that ballots were sent to many of the 2008 swing states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Colorado and others. In fact, the most ballots mailed to a toss-up state, went to the one that decided it all in 2000– Florida.


And while GW Votes has seemingly done its part this election cycle, GW waits on the rest of the country to do theirs tonight.


-Jared Pliner

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