Today is National Voter Registration Day. The year 2015 is the 50th anniversary of the historic Voting Rights Act.
Be sure to encourage everyone in your school district and open-enrollment charter school to register to vote that could vote in upcoming elections.
Registering to vote is easy and can be done online at https://register2.rockthevote.com/registrants/map/.
It takes only 5 minutes or less to register to vote or to update your registration.
Why is encouraging voter registration important to the citizens of Texas? “Voter turnout in Texas is indisputably awful,” reported Ross Ramsey in The Texas Tribute article “Analysis: Texas Seen as "Kind of an Electoral Wasteland." Texas has ranked last of the 50 States for voter turnout on the general election day.