NPAction Update
Vol 6, Issue 9
September 15, 2008

Welcome to the NPAction Update.

College Students Encourage Youth Voter Turnout with SAVE

After being forced to wait in line for ten hours to vote because the voting precinct was not allocated enough voting machines, Matthew Segal became engaged with election issues while in college, sparking the policy reform platform that SAVE promotes.

Segal and his experiences as a college student at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio were the true inspiration for SAVE, the Student Association for Voter Empowerment. SAVE is a national, non-profit, non-partisan organization with a mission to increase youth voter turnout by removing excess barriers to voting and promoting stronger civic education for young voters.

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*"Steal This Code": Put NPAction on Your Site*

NPAction invites organizations to share our tools on their websites. Just copy the HTML code from our site, and you’re ready to go (but when you steal the code, just let us know!).

"Steal the Code" today
http://www.npaction.org/article/articleview/600/1/1988

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