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-9 posts tagged "ND Votes"
Isabella Volmert | Monday, November 2, 2020
While Election Day is tomorrow, as of Sunday afternoon a record 93 million Americans have already voted, which is two-thirds of the entire voting population of the 2016 election. The New York Times reported the country is estimated to surpass 150 million votes for the first time in American history. The Observer recently polled its followers
Elizabeth Prater | Friday, September 25, 2020
Notre Dame athletics is collaborating with ND Votes and other organizations to register 100% of Notre Dame athletes to vote in the upcoming presidential election. ND Votes is a nonpartisan campaign — part of the Center for Social Concerns and sponsored by the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy and the Constitutional Studies
Ryan Peters | Tuesday, September 1, 2020
ND Votes, a student-run nonpartisan task force committed to promoting civic engagement, is switching their programming to a virtual format ahead of the upcoming election season. Co-chaired by seniors Rachel Sabnani and Michael Marotta, the task force consists of liaisons from each dorm, representatives from several issue-based clubs and interested students without any specific affiliation.
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, February 27, 2020
Notre Dame is woefully unprepared to host the first Presidential debate of 2020. Not in terms of their capacity to physically execute an event like this, but due to the fact that the University has zero clue on how to handle political engagement, much less political conflict. Allow me to share a story explaining what
Susanne Seiler | Wednesday, October 31, 2018
The United States is in a time of great political divide. With the midterm elections around the corner, people are seeking answers and closure. Tuesday, Notre Dame Constitutional Studies and the Center for Social Concerns’ ND Votes hosted a debate titled “A Blue Wave? The 2018 Mid-Term Elections and the Future of American Democracy.” This
Amelia Love | Monday, September 24, 2018
ND Votes will be celebrating Notre Dame’s National Voter Registration Day with a festival event Monday evening at the Geddes Hall Coffee House and patio. The celebration is open to anyone, and it is the culmination of a week-long voter registration drive the ND Votes task force organized. “[The event will be] American-themed, with apple pie,
Tom Naatz | Tuesday, September 26, 2017
NDVotes hosted “Popcorn, Pie and Politics” on Monday to kick off a 24-hour campaign registering students to vote on National Voter Registration Day on Wednesday. The event, held in Geddes Hall Coffee House, featured remarks by professors Geoffrey Layman and David Campbell. “We started NDVotes in the three semesters ahead of the 2016 election, focusing
Natalie Weber | Wednesday, April 19, 2017
BridgeND, Student Government, NDVotes and the Center for Social Concerns hosted a discussion called “How Did ND Vote?” on Tuesday analyzing the results of a post-election survey of students conducted by the Center for Social Concerns (C.S.C.), as well as data from the mock election held before the presidential election. According to junior, Clara Yang,
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, April 20, 2016
ND Votes hosted their final installment of “Pizza, Pop, and Politics” on Tuesday night with Michael Desch, professor of political science, and Mary Ellen O’Connell, the Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and research professor of international dispute resolution, speaking on issues of foreign policy related to the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Desch began by