By Mark Scott
Buffalo, NY – A campaign to register college students across New York to vote in next week's elections has added 11,000 new voters to the registration rolls.
It was called the SUNY Voter Empowerment Challenge. For five weeks in September and early October, a voter registration drive was held on all 64 SUNY campuses.
United University Professions -- the union that represents SUNY faculty and staff -- was one of the registration drive's sponsors. UUP spokesman Don Feldstein says Buffalo State was one of the statewide leaders in the effort, registering 1,500 students. Feldstein says as registered voters, these students will be better able to shape their respective futures by voting for candidates who will best represent them.
Following the first week of the campaign in September, Doug Jordan, a junior at Fredonia State, had said he was hoping to register 30,000 students. The campaign achieved about a third of that. UUP's Dan Feldstein said there was no official goal and that organizers are pleased the campaign succeeded in registering 11,000 students.
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