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Do you wish you knew what happens to your recycling after it’s picked up, how your local government operates, or how you can turn a spark of interest into real change in your community?

Then join Maine 101, our 10 week leadership training program:

Portland 101 will happen every Wednesday, starting Feb. 6th and continuing through April 10th.

Lewiston/Auburn 101 will be starting up around the same time, also on every Wednesday.

Email maryalice@youngvoter.org to get more information or to get an application.

Young voters represented a greater share of the national electorate Tuesday than four years ago, once again voting for President Barack Obama by a huge margin, boosting his reelection.

Voters from ages 18 to 29 represented 19 percent of all those who voted on Tuesday, according to the early National Exit Poll conducted by Edison Research. That’s an increase of one percentage point from 2008. Obama captured 60 percent youth vote, compared with Mitt Romney’s 36 percent.

Headlines suggested a lack of enthusiasm among college students in this election and polling showed fewer were registered or planning to vote.

“The role young people would play during this election has been a major question in American politics for over a year, and it seems the answer is that they have been as big a force at the polls in 2012 as in 2008,” said Peter Levine, director of the youth research organization CIRCLE at Tufts University. “They again supported President Obama, although not as lopsidedly as in 2008. Until tomorrow, it will be unclear whether youth turnout — or the turnout of any group — rose or fell, but young people were proportionately well represented in the 2012 electorate.”

Read the rest at Huffington Post.

Welcome to the Maine League!

As we Mainers know, a few hundred votes can make the difference in elections in our state. That’s why we want to help as many young voters get to the polls as possible.

This summer and fall we are offering support to Mainers throughout the state in registering your friends, neighbors, faith community, or workplace to vote!

Simply email nicola@youngvoter.org and let’s discuss who you’d like to help register to vote and how.

You can be a part of strengthening Maine’s democracy, and helping more of your friends and colleagues exercise their rights!

Want to start registering voters now?

Our TurboVote link to the right of this post is an online portal to online voter registration.

Click it to register.

Or email the link to this page to your friends and family, and encourage them to register online TODAY!