{"id":72355,"date":"2016-10-10T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T21:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=72355"},"modified":"2016-10-11T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T17:47:27","slug":"voice-heard-voter-registration-drive-delta-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2016\/10\/voice-heard-voter-registration-drive-delta-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Your Voice, Be Heard:  Voter Registration Drive at Delta State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the American Association of University Women partnered with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at Delta State University to motivate students to exercise their right to vote.<\/p>\n<p>Whether\u00a0students wanted to sign up to vote in Bolivar County or their hometown, the voter drive gave students one last opportunity\u00a0before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-72356 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"vote1\" width=\"241\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1-75x56.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/10\/vote1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a>the Oct. 8\u00a0deadline to get their Voter Registration Card in time to cast their ballot.<\/p>\n<p>The association reported a surge in freshman registration this year, with over 35 freshman\u00a0students registering to vote.<\/p>\n<p>AAUW also supports the only program in the country that encourages and trains college women to run for student government and future political office, Elect Her.\u00a0 Elect Her addresses the need to expand the pipeline of women candidates and to diminish the longstanding political leadership gender gap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, the American Association of University Women partnered with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity at Delta State University to motivate students to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":72357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-of-business"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72362,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72355\/revisions\/72362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}