Plan for Young Voters to Be Announced

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Plan for Young Voters to Be Announced
Grass-Roots Mobilization Effort for Presidential Election Will Focus on 6 States
By Brian Faler
Special to The Washington Post
Thursday, December 4, 2003; Page A06


The state Public Interest Research Groups (PIRGs), a network of activist groups, and George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management plan to announce an ambitious plan today to register and turn out thousands of young voters for next year's presidential election.

The effort, which organizers called the largest ever of its kind, is designed to mobilize 18-to-24-year-olds -- some of the nation's least likely voters -- in six states: Colorado, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon and Wisconsin. The groups hope to register 260,000 young people over the next year and to increase their average turnout next November by 5 percent -- or about 100,000 people.

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