Pre-registration bill filed in the MA Legislature. Please act:

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message from MassVOTE:

It’s official! A pre-registration bill has been filed in the Massachusetts Legislature. Now it's time to put pressure on your legislators to sponsor and pass it.

Pre-registration would let 16 and 17 year-olds register to vote so the day they turn 18 they are ready to cast their ballot. Pre-registration makes teens more likely to become committed voters for the rest oftheir lives. It increases voter turnout. In Massachusetts, pre-registration would lead to some 20,600 more registered voters each year.

The teens at MassVOTE, who we call our Young Civic Leaders, are working tirelessly to make pre-registration. Shaughnessy, a high school senior, told me:

“I can’t vote yet. But I still want to ‘pre-register’ so I’ll be all set and registered to vote the day I turn 18. Youth like me should have a say in the policies affecting our everyday lives. If elected officials know that I am pre-registered to vote and plan on voting when I turn 18, they will pay more attention to what matters to me and my friends – school budgets, globalwarming, and public transportation.”

Teen leaders like Shaughnessy need your help. You can make a difference in less than a minute by telling your Representatives and Senators that you want to see pre-registration passed this year.

Click here:
http://massvote.org/volunteer
and I’ll send a letter to your elected officials letting them know that you want them to co-sponsor pre-registration.

Thank you,

Avi, Cheryl, Jasmine, Sara, and Sam
The MassVOTE Team

P.S. Young people are the most diverse generation in our nation's history. They voted in 2008, but hardly at all in 2010. We can do better. Help us pass pre-registration now to get 18 year-olds ready to vote by registering them in school Civics classes and at the Registry of Motor Vehicles.

MassVOTE
41 West Street, Suite 700
Boston, MA 02111

[phone] - www.massvote.org

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