• Check with your school administrators to secure a time and a location for the drive. If you’re hosting a drive in your community, you could also check with local libraries, businesses, community centers, and other spaces in your community!
• Choose a time and a place where you’ll get a lot of foot traffic like a lunch period, or before or after classes. You could also choose a time during a school or campus activity like a sporting event or career fair.

• Hosting a voter registration drive in person is the most effective way to register people to vote. When you know the details, schedule your drive using this link.
• Make sure to include your address to get swag, including placards, stickers, and more!

• Distribute flyers and hang posters.
• Recruit students to ask teachers if they can make a short announcement in their classes [aka class raps].
• If you’re in high school, Junior and Senior Classes, which are likely to have the most folks who are eligible to register to vote, are great places to start for your class raps/announcements! Make sure to bring a flyer to hang on the whiteboard.
• Post about the drive on your group’s social media accounts, and see if your school will do the same on its social media accounts.
• Remind people to bring their government-issued ID or Social Security Number, and make it clear that this is a non-partisan activity.**

** Students Demand Action is hosting nonpartisan voter registration drives only. You cannot turn prospective voters away based on their political views or support for a candidate or party. In addition, for legal reasons, you may NOT advocate for the election or defeat of any candidate, or coordinate with any candidate, party, or campaign in connection with your voter registration drive.

• Look up the voter registration deadlines in your state, as they vary from state to state.
• Students Demand Action teams can help register voters using this digital voter registration tool that facilitates voter registration for people in every state and DC.
• In many states, specialized training or certification is required for paper voter registration drives. Accordingly, Students Demand Action volunteers should NOT handle paper voter registrations, but rather encourage people to register themselves through the online voter registration tool only.
• Registrants must fill out their own registrations on the online tool, and volunteers should not help them enter information, nor copy or retain any of the information the registrants provide through the online form. Everytown will provide separate pages‚ such as your event sign-up form — for people to sign up to hear more from Students Demand Action, Moms Demand Action, and/or Everytown.
• Test our online voter registration tool before your Voter Registration drive to familiarize yourself with the process in your state.

• You will need: voter reg placards, flyers about your next Students Demand Action meeting, and stickers.
• If you have questions before your drive, feel free to reach out to us at [email protected], and we can help you out!

• Direct people to GunSenseVoter.org/Register OR to text FUTURE to 644-33*
  • For a tool in Spanish, you can use VotoLatino’s voter registration tool.
  • Once they text FUTURE to 644-33, they will get the text with the link where they can register to vote, update their registration, or request an absentee ballot.
• Work in shifts of at least two. Before the drive, arrange a time to meet with your volunteers and walk them through VoteAmerica!
• Feel free to bring a speaker and play music to bring on the energy! You should also bring your placards, stickers, and anything else you’d like to bring to decorate the table.
• Ask people to register. Don’t just sit at your table or look distracted scrolling on your phone — approach people and ask if they’re registered to vote at their current address!
• Take pictures and post them on social media. Tag @studentsdemand so we can uplift your work. Use the hashtag #StudentsDemandAction and let people know they can register by texting FUTURE to 644-33 in your post!

• Follow up with everyone who signed up to join your Students Demand Action group. 
• Enter the new sign-ups in the attendee check-in form you received after registering your event