Help America Vote College Program

1) Loyola University was awarded $30,322. Loyola University plans to conduct an Equipment Manager Recruitment Initiative for Cook, County Illinois, which will recruit approximately 315 college students to serve as equipment managers in suburban Cook County for the November election. Loyola’s Division of Public Affairs will achieve this goal through an on-campus student organization recruitment contest. At the contest, students will compete to recruit the most Equipment managers for the general election. The contest-based program has proven effective through Loyola’s experience in the 2008 primary election, where Loyola in conjunction with the Cook County Clerk’s Office successfully recruited and trained 150 college students.

Contact Information:
Bill Sellers, Research Services Director
Loyola University of Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60626
Phone: 773-508-2478
Fax: 773-508-8942
Email: wsellers@luc.edu

2) Muhlenberg College, Lehigh County Voting Integrity & Civic Education Project, was awarded $10,409 for a project to assist the Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Office of Voter Registration and Elections in recruiting and training 40-60 college students as poll workers. Additionally, they plan to recruit 10-15 students who will serve as Spanish-language translators and interpreters at the polls on Election Day. Two of the main recruitment strategies will be an integration of the poll worker program into course requirements and campus-wide volunteer outreach and recruitment. 

Contact Information:
Lanethea Mathews-Gardner, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew Street
Allentown, PA 18104
Phone: 484-664-3737
Fax: 484-664-3536
Email: mathews@muhlenberg.edu

3) Winona State University was awarded $29,495 to recruit and place 100 students as election judges for the November 2008 general election. Students will be recruited from specific classes and asked to complete a pre and post test regarding their experience. In addition, Winona State plans to implement a service learning project in the classroom. As the state of Minnesota needs an estimated 30,000 election judges for the upcoming November election, the secretary of state has expressed strong support of Winona State’s program to assist in recruiting college students to serve as election judges. 

Contact Information:
Kara Lindaman, Assistant Professor
Winona State University
175 W. Mark Street
Winona, MN 55987
Phone: 507-457-5674
Fax: 507-457-5086
Email: klindaman@winona.edu

4) Golden Key International Honour Society was awarded $32,167 for a program to have 500,000 or more college students hear about the college program through marketing efforts. In addition, their goal is to have 1,500 or more college students serve as poll workers. Recruitment tools will include informational events, posters, brochures, and peer-to-peer motivation. 

Contact Information:
Colleen Ware- Associate Director; U.S. University Relations
Golden Key International Honour Society
621 North Ave N.E. Suite C-100
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone:  404-377-2401 x. 5716
Fax: Not supplied
Email: cware@goldenkey.org

5) Washtenaw Community College was awarded $30,767 to encourage 115 students enrolled largely at Washtenaw Community College, but also at neighboring universities, to assist the local government in administering elections by serving as poll workers or assistants. The college will encourage political science or other instructors to provide extra credit to students for their participation. Recruitment of students will be accomplished through connections with other student organizations, kick-off events, campus newspaper ads, flyers, and posters. 

Contact Information:
Krissa Rumsey, Grants Administrator
Washtenaw Community College
4800 E. Huron River Drive, P.O. Box 1610
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone: 734-973-3492
Fax: 734-677-5406
Email: krumsey@wccnet.edu

6) Northhampton County Area Community College was awarded $30,704 to utilize service-learning strategies that mobilize students using a course-based, service-learning experience that joins meaningful community service activities to related course material. In addition, community service will be ensured through peer networks such as student government, club, sorority and sports extra-curricular voluntary service. Campus-wide kick-off and wrap-up events where students, faculty, community leaders, and local election officials discuss the significance of civic responsibility and engagement in the democratic process will also be organized. These activities aim to recruit no fewer than 100 volunteers. 

Contact Information:
Debra Bohn, Service-Learning Administrator
Northampton County Area Community College
3835 Green Pond Road
Bethlehem, PA 18020
Phone: 610-861-5061

7) Texans Together Education Fund was awarded $32,167 for the Help Houston Vote project, which targets minority young adults with the purpose of placing them as trained assistant poll workers in Harris County Precinct One. This project will assist in creating a more ethnically diverse, multi-lingual, and younger generation to work at the polls. The goal is to recruit 100 students to serve as poll workers in Precinct One in the November election. 

Contact Information:
Joy Arthur, Director of Development
Texans Together Education Fund
221 East 9th Street, Suite 403
Austin, TX 78701
Phone: 512-619-7930
Fax: 512-473-2707
Email: joy_arthur@yahoo.com

8) The University of Baltimore was awarded $32,103 to supply approximately 300 election judges for the Baltimore metropolitan area and meet the needs of the Baltimore City and Baltimore County election boards. Recruiters will work as a team to develop and implement an outreach plan that will include distribution of posters and flyers, speaking to student organizations and classrooms, articles in school publications, and peer-to-peer recruitment. 

Contact Information:
John Willis
Schaefer Center for Public Policy & Center for Citizenship and Applied Politics, University of Baltimore
1420 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone: 410-837-6110
Fax: 410-837-6175
Email: jwillis@ubalt.edu

9) American University (AU) was awarded $32,167 to recruit 150 AU and other university students to serve as poll technicians or poll workers for the November election. The university also has the goal of developing a core curriculum in election administration based on lessons learned from the program to provide continuing technical assistance to the DC Board of Elections, and a certificate program for AU students. AU will attempt to recruit participants from AU’s 2006 Poll Worker Program to serve as team leaders for the 2008 Program. There will be strong collaboration with student organizations to advertise the program. In addition, AU will employ a catchy and attention-getting slogan in its efforts to publicize the program. 

Contact Information:
Conrad Hohenlohe, Assistant Director, Office of Sponsored Programs
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-885-3474
Fax: 202-885-3453
Email: chohenl@american.edu

10) Vassar College was awarded $31,785 to develop and implement the Help Dutchess County Vote College Program in conjunction with the Help America Vote College Program. Vassar College’s objectives goals include training 20 fellows and recruiting and training 200 poll workers. Outreach will include flyers, tabling, radio station and campus newspaper announcements, and Poll Worker drives will be held during the first two weeks of school. 

Contact Information:
Sarita McCoy Gregory, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science – Vassar College
P.O. Box 260
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
Email: sagregory@vassar.edu

11) Middlesex Community College was awarded $18,852. The college proposes to have a one-credit special topics course called Elections and Civic Participation in America. Middlesex Community College’s program goal is to completely meet the poll worker staffing needs of each of the participating municipalities and to have 100 percent of the students that are enrolled in the course complete a full day of work on Election Day. They anticipate training about 97 college students. 

Contact Information:
Trenton Wright, Coordinator of Institutional Advancement
Middlesex Community College
100 Training Hill Road
Middletown, CT 06457
Phone:  860-343-5708
Fax: 860-344-2789
Email: twright@mxcc.commnet.edu

12) The Virginia21 Organization was awarded $32,103. Its Virginia21’s “Democracy 101” program will use posters, flyers, a website, campus newspaper ads, etc. to promote the poll worker program. Virginia21 has identified 21 localities located near 19 college campuses with a total approximate need between 2,464-2,589 additional Officers of Elections. Their goal is to recruit 1,000 new Officers of Elections throughout their 21 localities. 

Contact Information:
Kelly Porell, Executive Director
Virginia21 Organization
1108 East Main Street, Suite 800
Richmond, VA 23219
Phone:  804-513-8221
Fax: 703-991-4513
Email: kporell@virginia21.org

13) Suffolk University was awarded $31,849 and plans to successfully recruit at least one professor at each partner site to integrate the college poll worker program into a standard fall course. In addition, their goal is to successfully recruit 75-100 students to serve as poll workers. Suffolk University will share best practices for training with the City of Boston’s election department. They will also develop a train-the-trainer manual and trainer seminar so the City of Boston may have a set of additional certified trainers who can conduct trainings on campuses (and elsewhere) around Boston. 

Contact Information:
Patricia Kelleher
Suffolk University
8 Ashburton Place
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-573-8390
Fax: Not supplied
Email: pkellehe@suffolk.edu

14) The University of Missouri, Columbia was awarded $25,705. The College’s Institute of Public Policy plans to partner with the Boone County Clerk to recruit and train 75-100 college students from Columbia College and Stephens College to serve as poll workers in the November general election. The project plan is largely centered on the EAC’s materials for recruiting college poll workers. Recruitment methods include posters, brochures, a mass media campaign, and a social network campaign. Additionally, faculty will be encouraged to offer extra credit to participating students. 

Contact Information:
Donna McKinney, Associate Director
University of Missouri – Columbia
Office of Sponsored Programs Administration
310 Jesse Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
Phone: 573-882-7560
Fax: 573-884-4078
Email: grantsdc@missouri.edu

15) The Citizen Union Foundation was awarded $29,114. The Foundation’s project is particularly important because the New York City Board of Elections estimates it will need 8,600 additional poll workers to supplement its regular staff of 30,000 on Election Day. Citizen Union’s goal is to recruit 3,000 nonpartisan poll workers of which 50% or 1,500 will be college students. Recruitment efforts will include expansive and comprehensive internet based recruitment, and they will build upon existing relationships with local colleges and universities to create on-campus recruitment and education on the election process. 

Contact Information:
Dick Dadey, Executive Director
Citizens Union Foundation
299 Broadway, Suite 700
New York, NY 10007
Phone:  212-227-0342
Fax: 212-227-0345
Email: ddadey@citizensunionfoundation.org

16) St. Louis Community College was awarded $21,035. Its four campus plan to partner with the St. Louis City and St. Louis County election boards will fulfill a need for poll workers through the “Show-Me New Poll Workers” project. It is anticipated that 500 college students will be recruited to serve as poll workers in the November 2008 general election. Students with skills in foreign languages, American Sign Language, business administration and communication, art, computer science, and political science will be specifically targeted. Recruitment will be facilitated through career and employment services, personal recruitment, and question and answer sessions. 

Contact Information:
John Messmer, Associate Professor of Political Science
St. Louis Community College
300 S. Broadway
St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: 314-984-7674
Fax: 314-984-7489
Email: jmessmer@stlcc.edu

17) Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) was awarded $32,167 to recruit student poll workers through classroom, club, and campus-wide events. Students enrolled in political science classes and Arabic-speaking students will be specifically targeted as well as the general student population through posters; information tables; flyers; the college newspaper, radio station, and website. Approximately 350 students will be recruited and the project anticipates 112 student poll workers will be utilized for the November general election. 

Contact Information:
Anthony Perry, Instructor of Political Science
Henry Ford Community College
5101 Evergreen Road
Dearborn, MI 48128
Phone: 313-845-6383
Fax: 313-845-9778
Email: adperry1@hfcc.edu

18) The University of Texas at El Paso was awarded $20,000. Its Center for Civic Engagement proposes to enhance an established partnership with local election administrators through “Border Poll Crew” recruitment of college poll workers, including bilingual students. The project has set a goal of 100 poll workers, including 75 bilingual poll workers. This goal is supported through a “Help America Vote” class with a civic education curriculum, class presentations, informational booths, and student ambassadors.

Contact Information:
Marisa Sanchez, Research Administrator
Center for Civic Engagement - The University of Texas at El Paso
500 W. University
El Paso, TX 79968
Phone: 915-747-8859
Fax: 915-747-6474
Email: masanchez2@utep.edu 

19) Auburn University Montgomery was awarded $25,750 for a joint effort project between Auburn University Montgomery (AUM) and Montgomery County Election Center to target college students to serve as Election Day Precinct Officials, Absentee Voting Officials, Election Day Technicians, or Election Center Assistants. AUM aims to recruit 200-250 applicants with an end goal of 150 trained students working on Election Day. Recruitment methods are largely centered around a publicity campaign including flyers, class presentations, a lecture series, campus events, and online resources such as MySpace and Facebook. 

Contact Information:
Thomas Petee, Research Lead,
Auburn University at Montgomery
P.O. Box 244023
Montgomery, AL 36124
Phone: 334-524-5781
Fax: Not Supplied
Email: tpetee@cgov.aum.edu

20) McDaniel College was awarded $32,038 to provide poll worker training for up to 100 McDaniel college students to work for Carroll and Baltimore County Election Commissions in the November 2008 election. Students will be recruited through a campus kick-off event in the Fall, class visits, and announcements coordinated through the campus newspaper, campus radio station, career services office, and various student organizations. Carroll County has agreed to accept 50 student workers already, and Baltimore County has requested between 75 and 100. 

Contact Information:
Deborah Johnson-Ross, Professor
McDaniel College
2 College Hill, Hill Hall 315
Westminster, MD 21157
Phone: 410-386-4632
Fax: 410-386-4601
Email: djohnson@mcdaniel.edu

21) The Onondaga Community College was awarded $16,785, and plans to expand its current partnership with the Onondaga County Board of Elections, which delivers poll worker training courses through its Office of Lifelong Learning, by linking the non-credit Poll Worker training program with the college’s Social Science Department, Career and Applied Learning Center, and student organizations to encourage students to serve as poll workers. Onondaga Community College aims to recruit at least 240 students, with 170-180 successfully completing the training and serving as poll workers on Election Day. 

Contact Information:
Nicole Schlater, Grants Officer
Onondaga Community College
4585 West Seneca Turnpike
Syracuse, NY 13215
Phone: 315-498-6056
Fax: 315-492-8386
Email: schlatern@sunyocc.edu

22) Youngstown State University was awarded $25,278 and intends to partner with Mahoning and Trumball County Boards of Election to recruit and train 40-50 college students to serve as poll workers or assistants in the state elections. Recruitment strategies include the development of a website to promote the program and to provide students with current information about the program, distribution and posting of flyers and brochures, speaking engagements, advertisement in the student newspaper, and online resources such as Facebook and MySpace. 

Contact Information:
Edward Orona, Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs
Youngstown State University
One University Plaza
Youngstown, OH 44555
Phone: 330-941-2377
Fax: 330-941-2705
Email: eorona@ysu.edu

23) The Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation was awarded $22,577. A past recipient of the EAC College Poll Worker Program grant in 2004 and 2006, Northern Kentucky University plans to expand on the successful past programs. Four part-time students will be hired to coordinate outreach and serve as ambassadors of the program to exclusively recruit and educate potential poll workers across the campus. Recruitment will be facilitated in a variety of ways including: holding weekly recruitment events, information tables, classroom presentations in all University 101 classes, creation of a Facebook page, weekly ads in the campus newspaper, development of a website, and posters and banners. Aims to recruit at least 225 students as poll workers. 

Contact Information:
Margaret Stevens, Director for Service Learning
Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation
Nunn Drive, AC 616
Highland Heigths, KY 41099
Phone: 859-572-7639
Fax: 859-572-1445
Email: stevensm1@nku.edu

24) Northern Plains Tribal Voter Education Project was awarded $32,167. The project seeks to help county auditors diversify the polling boards across the Northern Plain areas with significant Native American populations. They plan to target the Tribal Colleges to recruit students to be trained as poll workers. The Project has identified the importance of working closely with the county auditors to determine numbers of poll workers needed, training necessary, and Election Day placement. The program was previously funded in 2004 and the Project seeks to build on the positive experiences from 2004. The Project aims to place 75 tribal college students, from 16 tribal colleges, as poll workers. 

Contact Information:
Jean Katus, Program Manager
Northern Plains Tribal Voter Education Project
821 Upper Pines Drive
Rapid City, SD 57701
Phone: 605-718-0543
Fax: 605-718-0545
Email: j44katus@rushmore.com

25) The New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) was awarded $32,167, and plans to use existing relationships with extracurricular student groups, faculty, student life personnel, and other administrators on all of the 21 college campuses through New York State, to reach out and involve students. Methods for recruitment include: online recruitment, class presentations, campus club presentations, student government association outreach, information tables in high traffic areas on campuses, campus media, career office coordination, and various campus events. The State of New York has stated that an additional 8,000 pollworkers will be needed to adequately staff polls. NYPIRG aims to reach out to 15,000 college students and recruit 2,000 students to complete poll worker applications. 

Contact Information:
Diana Fryda, Development Coordinator
New York Public Interest Research Group
9 Murray Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10007
Phone: 212-349-6460
Fax: 212-349-1366
Email:  dfrydfa@nypirg.org

26) Greensboro College was awarded $32,167 and plans to recruit and train students who attend college and universities in Guilford County, North Carolina, to serve as poll workers, particularly during the three-week Early Voting period. Recruitment will be accomplished through flyers, posters, and informational pamphlets, and classroom visits. Greensboro College plans to recruit 55 students to serve as poll workers. 

Contact Information:
Rebecca Klase, Assistance Professor of Political Science and Legal Administration
Greensboro College
815 West Market Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
Phone: 336-272-7102
Fax: 336-271-6634
Email: rklase@gborocollege.edu

27) The Southern Connecticut State University was awarded $28,160. Its goal is to create a group of 40 trained, highly-educated, non-partisan student poll workers by offering two section of a three-credit introductory undergraduate course that presents an in-depth academic study of federal, state, and city elections, the history of U.S. elections, and the electoral process itself. Methods of recruitment will include social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, videos on YouTube, a web page on the university site, posters, flyers, student newspapers, etc. 

Contact Information:
Ronald Herron, Vice President for Student and University Affairs
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street, Engleman Hall
New Haven, CT 06515
Phone: 203-392-5550
Fax: 203-392-5555
Email: herron1@ssouthernct.edu

 Help America Vote Mock Election Program

1) The League of Women Voters of Trumbull County was awarded $15,835. The aim of the program is secondary education students in two school districts. The targeted area has higher than average unemployment and is in an economically disadvantaged area (i.e. 29.1% of Newton Falls students and 19.6% of Lordstown students are economically disadvantage according to the Ohio Dept. of Ed.). Voting systems used in the mock vote are identical to the actual voting systems used by the respective Ohio counties. Technicians will program the election and Trumbull County Board of Elections will train the students as poll workers, and how to set-up, operate, and end an election. Students will participate in both the public aspect of an election and the behind-the-scenes administrative process that few citizens actually witness. This grant will enable the League of Women Voters to enhance the educational experience of over 1,200 students in two school districts. . Currently, the school districts hold yearly mock elections with their students and this grant will make the annual project more "real" by introducing actual voting machines to the project. 

Contact Information:
Terri Crabbs, President
League of Women Voters of Trumbull County
P.O. Box 161
Fowler, Ohio 44418
Fax: not supplied
Email: tcrabbs@aol.com

2) The Oregon League of Women Voters was awarded $16,477. The League of Women Voters of Oregon Educational Fund has coordinated this program since 2002. Materials are aligned with state curriculum and are designed to meet needs of all students including second language, visual and other impairments and addressing varied learning styles. Cooperative efforts are described in the application between the applicant and the Oregon Secretary of State Election Division, Oregon State Library Talking Book and Braille Service, Oregon School Boards Association, National and Oregon Parent/Teacher Association, local chapters of the LOWV, and Oregon Department of Education evidence extraordinary regional support. The program plans to reach 250 schools, including more than 45,000 students, to participate, in both rural and urban Oregon. Applicant designed the Mock Election to closely mimic the State of Oregon Vote-by-Mail ballot. 

Contact Information:
Rebecca Smith, Executive Director
Oregon League of Women Voters Education Fund
1330 12th Street, SE, Suite 200
Salem, OR 97302
Fax: 503-581-9403
Email: lwvor@lvvor.org

3) The Illinois League of Women Voters was awarded $21,307. The applicant is targeting diverse groups as well as mainstream schools and has commitments from the State, County, and dozens of High Schools throughout the region. The grant request proposes to hold mock student elections in 165 high schools with an approximate student population of 200,000. This project includes all 116 high schools in the Chicago public school system as well as at least 50 high schools in several counties. The League has successfully negotiated with the Chicago Board of Elections to provide actual Federal-only optical scan ballots and election judge manuals for the mock elections in the Chicago public high schools. In addition, the Chicago Board of Elections will provide electronic voting machines in three Chicago Public high schools serving large populations of disabled students in order for them to have the opportunity to use these machines as they would (if they so chose) in the November election. 

Contact Information:
Janet Czarnik, Executive Director
League of Women Voters Illinois Education Fund
332 S. Michigan Avenue, Suite 1150
Chicago, IL 60604
Fax: 312-939-6887
Email: jczarnik@lwvil.org

4) The State of Montana Secretary of State was awarded $20,109. The Montana Mock Election reaches out to all secondary students in the state of Montana as well as targeting the American Indian population. The project will canvass over 170 secondary high schools and reach nearly 50,000 high school students. Students will have the opportunity to vote using actual voter assistance terminals and optical scan precinct counters at the schools. Election results will be posted in real-time and receive live statewide media coverage. 

Contact Information:
Lisa Kimmet, Elections Deputy
Loyola University of Chicago
P.O. Box 202801
Helena, MT 59620
Fax: 406-444-2023
Email: lkimmet@mt.gov

5) The National Student Parent Mock Election was awarded $24,366. The agency is an established organization with considerable experience in coordinating mock election programs around the country. Considerable support is shown for the project including outside financial support. The materials created by NSPME are excellent, the broad range of targeted jurisdictions is great, and the project is well-staffed and organized. They have asked Google to help them develop a virtual voting machine experience and a virtual election system experience through a separate grant. Project for 2008 has established new outreach initiatives with special emphasis on reaching underrepresented populations and geographic areas. 

Contact Information:
Gloria Kirshner, President/Program Director
National Student/Parent Mock Election
225 W. Oro Valley Drive
Tucson, AZ 85737
Fax: 520-742-3553
Email: nspme@aol.com

6) The State of Texas Secretary of State was awarded $20,104. The State of Texas provides a thorough and detailed account of plans to host mock elections that mirror actual elections. An existing mock elections program will be supplemented and enhanced using grant funds. The statistics for the current student mock elections program have a solid record of increasing involvement that signifies an audience that will be willing to participate and that may expand with/as a result of this program. This program will also be offered across a large geographic area and comprehensive population of students since all 1,629 secondary schools in Texas will be given the opportunity to participate. The goal is to have 75% participation among all 1,629 Texas High Schools. The program will include a voting simulation that will offer students the opportunity to participate in an interactive demonstration of casting a ballot. 

Contact Information:
Dan Glotzer, HAVA Grant Manager
State of Texas, Elections Division
P.O. Box 12060
Austin, TX 78711
Fax: 512-475-2811
Email: dglotzer@sos.state.tx.us

7) The Townsend Harris High School and the Taft Institute for government were awarded $21,441. During the last twelve years, it is estimated that 27,000 students have played the election simulation game that Townsend Harris High School, in collaboration with the Taft Institute for Government has developed. It is expected that through this year’s program, approximately 2,450 students will participate. 

Contact Information:
Susan Getting, Assistant Principal
Townsend Harris High School
149-11 Melbourne Avenue
Flushing, NY 11367
Fax: 718-575-1366
Email: sgettin@schools.nyc.gov

8) The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office was awarded $20,091. Bernalillo County has more than 620,000 residents in 424 precincts and serves large minority populations consisting of Hispanic/Latin American and Native American/Alaska Native citizens. The Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office has titled their program, “Go Vote!,” and they will target senior level students enrolled in 4 high schools serving largely minority precincts. Their mock election will feature real candidates and ballot issues that will mirror the real ballot and the election process that voters will experience in November. The goal of the program is to have 90% or better of the targeted high school students participate in the mock election program. 

Contact Information:
Robert Adams, Deputy County Clerk
Bernalillo County Clerk’s Office
One Civic Plaza NW, 6th Floor
Albuquerque, NM 87102 
Fax: 505-768-4190
Email: clerk@bernco.gov

9) The Office of the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Kentucky was awarded $20,072. The mock election programs target all 453,834 middle and high school students from every geographic region throughout the state. Particular emphasis is placed on the state’s 203,002 high school students, ages 14-18, whose participation in future elections is most imminent. As part of the program, the Office of the Secretary of State is working closely with the County Clerks Association to provide participating teachers with access to the new voting machines, most notable, the E-slate, for demonstration purposes. 

Contact Information:
Michelle Woods, Special Assistant to the Secretary
Office of the Secretary of State
Commonwealth of Kentucky
700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 152
Frankfort, KY 40601
Fax: 502-564-5687
Email: michelle.woods@ky.gov

10) The United States Hispanic Leadership Institute was awarded $20,198. USHLI proposes a civic education/mock election program for Chicago and Cook County, Illinois. They plan to implement the program in 39 inner-city and suburban school districts, serving 25,000 - 40,000 students in grades 9-12. The Cook County Clerk’s office has consistently provided voting booths and when necessary, provided sample ballots. Chicago electronic and print media are invited to cover some of the activities of the mock election program, and television coverage of some of these activities helps generate public interest in the election, particularly in the Latino and African American communities. 

Contact Information:
Juan Andrade, Executive Director
United Hispanic Leadership Institute
431 S. Dearborn Street, Suite 1203
Chicago, IL 60605
Fax: 312-427-5183
Email: docandrade@ushli.org

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