Registered Student Organizations set up tables around campus to aid in the voting registration process for students Sept. 20. Tables were set up by Torreyson Library, the Ronnie Williams Student Center and the Lewis Science Center Atrium. 

Junior Jaden Fleeks is a member of the Lambda Upsilon Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, one of the RSOs advocating for students to register for voting. 

“One of our Five-Point Programmatic Thrust is political awareness and involvement,” Fleeks said. “That’s one thing our sorority likes to emphasize, especially being young Black educated women.”  

The Five-Point Programmatic Thrust is the values the sorority centers their public service involvement around. These values include educational and economic development, physical and mental health, international awareness and involvement and political awareness and involvement. 

Students volunteered at the tables to aid their peers in registering to vote. 

“[The purpose] is to get as many young voters, especially here on campus, involved and make sure they are aware that they are able to make a change,” Fleeks said. 

National Voter Registration Day aims to encourage students to incite change by voting for officials who represent them. 

“It’s important that young people are aware and vote because there are a lot of older officials in office,” Fleeks said. “Times have definitely changed, so I feel like, with the change in times, there should be a change with the newer generation in office.” 

Fleeks said that there are many students who just turned 18 on campus, so events like National Voter Registration Day can provide access to new information.

“Not just our organization, but others as well, allow you to have that avenue of knowledge that you didn’t have before, or that I didn’t have to come from my small town,” Fleeks said. 

Freshman Harley Walls volunteered to work at the table set up by the First Generation Scholars Society. 

“I feel like its very important for people to register to vote,” Walls said. “I felt like if I can help out with the process it would be beneficial not only to them but to me.”

The tables were set up in convenient places around campus to be available for the students. 

“It’s very accessible,” Walls said. “When people are walking, either to the library to study or to the student center to eat, they are able to pass by the student registration table.”

The upcoming midterm elections will take place Nov. 8, so the RSOs aim to get students registered before the registration deadline and in time to contribute their votes. 

“It’s very important to get the people you want in those positions because those are the people who are making our laws,” Walls said. “The president signs the laws that are from the Senate and the House of Representatives. So it is very important that we elect people that we want as a country in those positions so we can get the laws that we want to be passed.” 

Walls said that how our government is set up makes it important that as many people as possible take the time to go out and vote. 

“We are a democracy,” Walls said. “It’s important that people vote so they can get their opinions and voices heard.”