Last night, End Citizens United // Let America Vote Action Fund President Tiffany Muller and former Congressman Max Rose joined NY1 Inside City Hall to discuss Organize New York, the new $9 million initiative that will mobilize youth voters across six New York congressional districts.
Click here to watch the interview.
Key Points:
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Errol Louis: “Many, including those in New York, have yet to register to vote. A new nonpartisan group called Organize New York is trying to change that. The group is funding a $9 million initiative to mobilize voters between the ages of 18 to 26, specifically in New York’s six battleground districts, which could determine control of the House of Representatives.”
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Errol Louis: “Compared to Michigan and Pennsylvania, which saw youth turnout increase from 2018 to 2022, our youth turnout went down. Why did that happen?”
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Tiffany Muller: “Here in New York, young voters have been too often left behind or kind of an afterthought only engaged at the last minute in elections. Too many of them feel like their voices just don’t matter in the process, so we’re looking to change that.”
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Tiffany Muller: “One of the big things is, too often young voters think that their voices don’t matter in the system. Priorities like climate change or choice or student loans or gun violence–they’re just being left behind. Because too often the special interests are, you know, clogging up the system and causing dysfunction.”
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Max Rose: “We have to meet young people where they are. We have to activate them on college campuses, we have to break through with not just a message that matters, but a messenger that breaks through to them…there are just as many young people who have made the decision to not attend a four-year on campus education and we have to make sure we are correctly messaging them on the importance of this election.”
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Tiffany Muller: “Young voters, we know, have a lot of priorities and a lot of concerns, and for them to have those addressed, we first have to make sure they are actively involved in their democracy. That they’re registered to vote. That they’re voting.”
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Max Rose: “Our politics have shifted so significantly. They will be hyper-competitive. And, for either side, young people will be the difference maker.”
Learn more about Organize New York here.
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