Student PIRGs Drive 2006 Youth Vote Turnout

It's clearer than ever that strategic & aggressive efforts to get more young people in the political process works.  According to PIRG/Fund alum Kathleen Barr of Youth Voter Strategies, "Turnout [in the 11/07/06 election] more than doubled in the 36 precincts where groups like the nonpartisan Student PIRG’s New Voters Project actively turned out this age cohort...The Student PIRG’s registered over 75,000 students to vote and ran nonpartisan GOTV operations on 80 campuses in 2006."    For more on youth turnout in the recent election, check out this 11/9/06 news release from the Pew Charitable Trusts and Youth Voter Strategies.