This toolkit has been designed to be easy to understand, simple to use, and ready for practical campaign applications. 

From the Introduction: "The way candidates treat young adults can have great influence on whether they vote. And that leads to the tools and advice we have incorporated here. "

This toolkit has been designed to be easy to understand, simple to use, and ready for practical campaign applications. We hope candidates will pick and chose from among the various solutions set out, selecting those that seem right for them and their individual campaigns."

30 Million is the number of citizens, aged 18 – 30, who did not vote in the Presidential election of 1996. Source: U.S. Census, Report on Voting and Registration in the Election of November 1996 (P20 – 504), Table 1. Reported Voting and Registration, by Single Years of Age and Sex. With population growth, the number will probably be higher this year.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Aspen Institute’s Democracy and Citizenship Program is grateful to the Pew Charitable Trusts for providing the funding for the Young Voter Initiative. We wish to thank Michael X. Delli Carpini, Director of the Public Policy Program, for his support throughout this endeavor.

We want to thank our state partners for their excellent work on organizing our meetings at the state level. In California: Cydne Nash of the Khalil Group and the entire staff of the California Campus Compact; in Pennsylvania, Ed Schwartz and Kelly Green of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values; and in Texas, Dr. Roderick Hart and Kanan Sawyer of the University of Texas Austin Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation.

Finally, we are pleased to honor the invaluable contributions of the members of our research team: Celinda Lake, Vicki Shabo and Colleen Shanahan of Lake Snell Perry & Associates; Dr. Roderick Hart of the University of Texas Austin; Chuck Greener, Suzy DeFrancis, Carrie Schum and Renae Newmiller of Porter Novelli; John Franzen of Franzen & Company; and Tom Edmonds of Edmonds Associates. We are grateful for all of your contributions to this report and to the entire Young Voter Initiative.

David Skaggs, Executive Director
Deborah Both, Co-Director
Sharon Bassett, Young Voter Initiative Project Director
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