He added that Stronger In also works with "a patchwork quilt of other groups", including Universities UK, and the National Union of Students, to work on boosting registration.
He praised the grassroots campaigning of organizations like Voto Latino, and Mi Familia Voto, which helped boost registration in key states, and said that without them the turnout would have been even lower. .
To learn more about the candidates' opposing views on early and weekend voting and to see the new early voting hours for 2014, go to Three days of voting to be restored, New early-voting hours set after federal court ruling and State Sen. Nina Turner unveils bill to boost registration, ease voting rules.
"Online registration contributed significantly to an increase in 2012 youth registrants and modestly to overall increases in general registration rates," claims a University of California, Davis, study of the 2012 election, which finds that online voting boosted youth registration an entire percent (10.1 percent to 11.1percentt) in its short one-month existence prior to the election [PDF].
It would also save money and boost registration numbers, particularly among younger voters: in Arizona, for example, registration rates among 18-24 year-olds rose from 29% to 53% with an online-voting system.
Boosting electoral registration is just one aspect of tackling the problem of declining democratic participation, particularly among the young, which is worrying politicians from David Blunkett, the former Labour home secretary, to Chloe Smith, the former coalition minister in charge of electoral reform.
In light of the results, youth vote advocacy organization, Rock-the-Vote, found that SMS reminders to finish the paperwork could (slightly) reverse the results, boosting completed registration in the SMS group by 4%.
Black Lives Matter can use its grassroots organizing acumen to mobilize its members and to boost voter registration and turnout on election day.
UNICEF and partners aim to use Mobile VRS to boost birth registration rates to over 80 per cent nationwide by 2014.
MONROVIA, Liberia, 11 December 2013 – UNICEF and the Government of Liberia today called for accelerated efforts to boost birth registration in the country.
