NEWS 10/14/24 8:27am

Elon Votes coordinator and junior Lindsay Bialecki, right, helps junior Elina Shah register to vote during a voter registration drive Oct. 8.

Campus political engagement surges as Elon Votes mobilizes students

Senior Lydia Cohen recently changed her voter registration from New Jersey to North Carolina. Cohen, who is planning on voting for Democratic candidates, felt it made more sense to vote in North Carolina. Lindsay Bialecki, a coordinator for Elon Votes, has seen this in registrations. According to Bob Frigo, assistant dean of campus life and director of the Kernodle Center for Civic Life, in the 2020 election, almost 90% of Elon students were registered to vote and 74% cast their ballots. In the 2016 election, almost 79% of Elon students were registered to vote and 49% cast their ballots.


NEWS 10/13/24 2:26pm

Elon freshman finds passion in local politics, community engagement

This election season, Elon freshman Micah Ash McFadden has been running Bryan Norris’ campaign for Alamance County District Court judge. Ash McFadden also serves as third vice-chair of the Alamance County Democratic Party. In 2021, he interned with the town of Green Level. Next, he managed Patricia Jones’ 2021 Green Level town council campaign. Then he was a community organizer for Ricky Hurtado’s North Carolina state house reelection campaign in 2022. Ash McFadden said he’s spent hundreds of hours canvassing across different corners of the county.


NEWS 10/11/24 12:36pm

North Carolina voting maps to shift representation in 2024 election

North Carolina congressional maps may allow for as much as a 10-4 Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives as opposed to the current 7-7 split, according to Dillan Bono-Lunn, professor of political science and public policy and faculty fellow for Civic Engagement. Bono-Lunn said gerrymandering, which is a term that describes how voting districts are drawn, has been done for years by both Republicans and Democrats. As of Oct. 5, there were 2,418,633 registered Democrat voters, 2,298,019 registered Republicans and 2,912,447 unaffiliated voters, according to the NCSBE.


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