Chants Vote Needs YOU!

This is your toolkit to helping others register to vote. As members of the CCU community, all students, faculty, and staff are asked to help further the Chants Vote mission of register all members of our CCU community to vote.

Faculty

Here are a few very simple ways to get your students information about Chants Vote and voter engagement, and to get them talking about their roles as voters.

• Send an email! Do not know what to write? Customize the email template below.
• Mention Chants Vote in class and show your students how and where to find the website.
• Devote part of a class to signing up with TurboVote and have all of your students sign up together.
• Have a discussion about the importance of voting.
• Post about Chants Vote and voter engagement on your social media!

Staff

There are some very simple ways for you to help spread the message of Chants Vote and get your students registered and engaged as voters.

• Send an email to your student staff or any student organizations you advise. Do not know what to write? Customize the email template below.
• Mention Chants Vote in your next staff or organization meeting and show your students how and where to find the website.
• Devote part of a meeting to signing up with TurboVote and have all of your students sign up together.
• Have a discussion about the importance of voting.
• Post about Chants Vote and voter engagement on your social media!

Students

Already registered and plan to do your part by voting? The following suggestions are some ways that you take action to help others use their vote and use their voice.

• Ask your friends/roommates/suitemates to register to vote.
• Work on campus?
  • Ask your supervisor if they can help you get other employees registered to vote. Maybe devote part of your next staff meeting to talking about voter registration.
• Part of a student organization?
  • Bring it up during your next meeting! Ask your president if you can incorporate voter engagement into the agenda. Or just send out an email to the members with the coastal.edu/chantsvote link.

Email Templates

• TO: Students

  FROM: [Faculty name]

  SUBJECT: Your role in the upcoming election

  Dear students,

  I know you’re busy with the beginning of the term, but I want to ask you to take a moment to make sure you can participate in the upcoming election.

  Get helpful information and materials you need to vote by checking out coastal.edu/chantsvote.

  CCU is committed to making sure our community is prepared and excited to participate in our democracy. To help accomplish this, CCU has partnered with TurboVote, an online service that allows you to sign up in one place to start the registration process, request an absentee ballot, and subscribe to text and email reminders about the deadlines and elections that affect you as a voter. You can find the TurboVote link on the Chants Vote webpage under "Register Your Vote."

  No matter whom you choose on the ballot, please take this opportunity now to participate in this important civic process.

  Sincerely,

  [Faculty name]