Registration push aims for more young voters
Mike Branom, Tribune
Every four years, much energy is spent registering college students to vote, leading political pundits to wonder whether thiswill be the year the youth vote finally makes a difference.
Monday is the deadline to register to vote on Nov. 4
At Arizona State University, a registration "blitz" comes to a head today, the state's deadline for signing up to vote in the Nov. 4 general election. The student government coordinator for voter registration hopes to add 2,000 students to the voter rolls.
But with all of the emphasis on choosing the next resident of the White House, will these just-franchised citizens bother with the races for the statehouse? And what of future elections? Will they continue to vote as they grow older, or will civic participation be a passing fancy?
One question to which political experts say they already know the answer is whether young voters will come out in numbers large enough to tip the election.
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Subject: Tempe - Registering Voters ASU 
