Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Ray Marcano
Now that we’re firmly in election season, voter registration efforts are popping up all over our area.
People like Kalesha Scott and her colleagues at the Ohio Student Association are at the forefront of these important efforts. The association works with universities, including the University of Dayton and Central State, Wright State, and Wilberforce, on policy change, higher education reform, nonpartisan voter registration efforts and more.
The League of Women Voters, the Poor People’s Campaign and the City of Trotwood have all had or will have get-out-the-vote campaigns. You might see registration tables at a local community center, retirement home, or church between now and October 11, the last day to register to vote in Ohio. Early voting starts October 12.
Each registration is a half-step toward participating in our democracy.
Scott, a grad student at Wright State University, said the association has already registered 200 new voters — mostly college students — and hopes to register 1,000.
Scott said at one recent event, a single issue drove registrations. “Roe vs. Wade. That was the big thing, especially for women … just feeling like their rights are being taken away,” Scott said.
