National Voter Registration Day called students and volunteers
to grab their clipboards, set up tables and register voters on
campuses and in communities across Alabama and the rest of the
country. Sept. 25, 2012 marked the first National Voter
Registration Day. Enthusiasm certainly wasn't lacking in the
Auburn-Opelika community. The National Voter Registration Day is
a single day of coordinated efforts nationwide to make sure as
many Americans as possible are able to cast their ballots on
November 6. The day of action was sponsored by 98 national and
local partners, including the Campaign for Youth, the California
State University system, Autism Speaks and the American
Democracy Project, as well as by hundreds of event sponsors
around the country. In this community alone, volunteers
registered voters at local high schools, Auburn University and
Southern Union State Community College. The League of Women
Voters, a non-partisan organization committed to registering
voters and advocating for women's issues, had