Ep. 98 Getting Out the Vote on Campus

The number of college students across the nation who voted in the midterms doubled between 2014 and 2018. At Duke University, the voting rate was even higher – it jumped 114 percent. We explore how that jump happened and what specific strategies other colleges could use to increase their own student voting rates. Guests: BJ Rudell, Associate Director of POLIS, the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service at Duke University and Lindsay Morgenstein, student voting drive organizer. Read the episode transcript Visit the Duke Votes website Music: Georgia Overdrive and The Zeppelin by Blue Dot Sessions / Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution