A new youth-specific voter information project by the Granite State News Collaborative and its partners is launching today. The initiative, Know Your Vote, was inspired by the Baltimore Beat’s Youth Voter Guide and aims to educate New Hampshire’s voters under 29 ahead of the 2024 elections.
It will feature online and social media content that will be available across the online and social platforms of the Granite State News Collaborative and its partners.
“When it comes to things like voter registration, voter information, this is all really new to us,” said Kay Bailey, the editor-in-chief of The Clock, Plymouth State University’s student paper. “So being able to know more about these elections and getting information on these new experiences from people who are also experiencing this for the first time can be really powerful.”
Recent national polling by CBS and YouGov found that only 66% of registered voters 18-29 plan to vote in November. Additionally, 48% of the same demographic do not believe either major party candidate understands their needs.
To kick off the project, we are asking young voters to complete this survey (also available in Spanish). Reporters will use the survey results as the basis for the articles included in the guide. The articles will be released throughout the summer and fall through GSNC’s website, its local news partners and social media. The hope is that the guide will be something young voters can use and refer to often in the lead up to the elections.
Know Your Vote is being designed, reported and produced by student and young professional journalists from GSNC, The Concord Monitor, The Laconia Daily Sun, The Ledger Transcript, NH PBS, Manchester Ink Link, Nashua Ink Link, The Clock, The Equinox, The New Hampshire and The Presidency and the Press program at Franklin Pierce University.
About The Collaborative:
The Granite State News Collaborative is a collective of more than 20 local news, community and educational organizations that have agreed to work together to get more news to more people who need it.
GSNC Partners
- GSNC partners include
- 603 Diversity
- The Berlin Sun
- Business NH Magazine
- The Business Journal of Greater Keene, Brattleboro and Peterborough
- The Concord Monitor
- The Conway Daily Sun
- The Eagle Times
- The Eagle-Tribune
- The Keene Sentinel The Laconia Daily Sun
- Manchester Ink Link/Nashua Ink Link
- The Marlin Fitzwater Center at Franklin Pierce University
- The Nashua Telegraph
- NH Bar News
- NH Business Review
- New Hampshire Press Association
- NH PBS
- NH Public Radio
- The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
- Seacoast Media Group
- The Valley News
The Collaborative Community Partners include:
- Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire
- Citizens Count
- Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications
- New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute
- New Hampshire Humanities