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2014 State Partner Convening Las Vegas, Nevada

2014 State Partner Convening Las Vegas, Nevada. EARLY VOTING IN CLARK COUNTY. 2014 midterm election. Rising american electorate. Youth 18-29, new citizens, voters of color, low income, female RAE Voters accounted for -

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2014 State Partner Convening Las Vegas, Nevada

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  1. 2014 State Partner Convening Las Vegas, Nevada

  2. EARLY VOTING IN CLARK COUNTY

  3. 2014 midterm election

  4. Rising american electorate Youth 18-29, new citizens, voters of color, low income, female RAE Voters accounted for - • 81% of population growth in the US between 2000 and 2010 and… • 95% percent! between 2008 and 2010. • Now represent over half of eligible voters

  5. A CHANGING ELECTORATE US Census Voter Registration and Voting Survey

  6. Reconquista: latinoPOPulation growthin the southwest Percent Hispanic Population by County 2010 1836 Mexican Border in red US Census 2010

  7. Voter contact rates MIDTERM YEAR PRESIDENTIAL YEAR Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Poll, 2006 American National Election Studies, 2008

  8. Voter contact rates ImpreMedia-Latino Decisions poll Nov 2012

  9. Top Reasons for voting First Time Voters = Blue Previous Voters = Red Source: Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Survey November 2004

  10. Who votes matters The Party of Non-Voters – Pew Research 2010

  11. Who Votes Matters Who Votes Now: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States, Leighley and Nagler, 2013

  12. WHO VOTES matters 2006 ballot measure to raise the minimum wage in Ohio National Election Exit Poll – 2006

  13. Expanding the franchise • 2014 Goals • Higher Turnout > 41.6% VEP • Less Drop Off < 34 million • More Representative of the RAE

  14. America goes to the polls

  15. Testimony from NCRP “Groups that register voters and promote voting had greater success (with advocacy) than groups that didn’t engage electorally. Our hypothesis about this is that elected officials pay more attention to policy campaigns of groups that they know can help or hurt them at the polls.” Aron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Council For Responsive Philanthropy, “Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results By Funding Policy & Community Engagement”

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