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Causes: Children & Youth, Civil Rights, Voter Education & Registration, Voting Rights, Youth Development
Mission: Rock the vote is organized primarily for the purposes of educating young people about civic participation and engaging them in the political process. Rock the vote coordinates voter registration drives, get-out-the-vote events, and voter education efforts, all with the intention of ensuring that young people take advantage of their right to vote and engage in the democratic process.
Programs: Elections: nonpartisan voter registration, education and engagement efforts online and at events that target young and under-represented citizens in order to increase their participation in our country's electoral process.
technology: provider of free plug-in technology to over 10,000 nonprofits, technology and media companies that allows organizations to register voters through a cost-effective online platform.
voter protection: communication efforts to build support for a modernized, streamlined elections system that meets the needs of today's electorate and protects young people's right to vote.
civic education: nonpartisan civics program about the history of voting rights and the process of voter registration that is conducted in classrooms nationwide.