{"id":4056,"date":"2016-10-08T08:29:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T16:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2016-10-10T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T17:44:02","slug":"vote2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/vote2016\/","title":{"rendered":"#Vote2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Stephanie Blair\r\nEditor-in-Chief<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-08-at-9.28.34-AM-300x300.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-10-08-at-9-28-34-am\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4113 alignright\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>After the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, the internet has exploded with various voter registration campaigns for National Voter Registration day. A company, called HelloVote, has created a chatbot service that allows people to register to vote through text message.<br \/>\nOn YouTube, \u201cRegister to Vote in 1:34\u201d videos were created by the likes of Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson and Conan O\u2019Brien so the VoteIRL campaign could show how quick and easy registering is (an average time of one minute and 34 seconds, hence the titles). While on Twitter, hashtags such as #LoseYourVCard and #VoteHoney were smattered across dashboards to promote other campaigns, but all with the same message; 18-34 year-olds are being called to vote.<br \/>\nAccording to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/content\/dam\/Census\/library\/publications\/2015\/demo\/p20-577.pdf\">US Census Bureau<\/a>, over the last three presidential elections 18-34 year-olds have only made up an average 23.7 percent of the voting population while 45-64 year-olds have consistently been the largest voting demographic with an average of 38.5 percent.<br \/>\nThe last day to register to vote is Tuesday, Oct. 18. To register to vote, visit vote.gov and have your driver\u2019s license or identification card ready.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Stephanie Blair Editor-in-Chief After the first presidential debate on Sept. 26, the internet has exploded with various voter registration campaigns for National Voter Registration day. A company, called HelloVote, has created a chatbot service that allows people to register to vote through text message. On YouTube, \u201cRegister to Vote in 1:34\u201d videos were created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":937,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/937"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}