Comments on: Dotters-Katz Voter Reg Effort Questioned

By: Slade

Slade — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:13:18 +0000

Comparing voter reg numbers in an off year to reg numbers in a presidential election year is pretty silly.

By: daniels

daniels — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:32:59 +0000

nope, J isn’t drunk Jacob Daniels, but I’m sure I was drunk that night.

By: human nature

human nature — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:32:03 +0000

I wonder how rallying Greek Life for voter registration is gonna work out . . . most don’t need to change addresses and they don’t care enough to actively register those outside of Greek Life – let alone those inside. Additionally, October 14th is the last day to register in Oregon. That gives just over two weeks to reach that 10,000 mark - mind you, while trying to reform the process.

A lofty goal indeed.

By: Fuck jared axelrod

Fuck jared axelrod — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:53:36 +0000

fuck jared axelrod, he was stoned the whole time he was prez and is a true asshole

By: Concerned Student

Concerned Student — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:31:37 +0000

J = drunk jacob daniels

By: J

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:14:11 +0000

“UO has 20,394 students. Each would need to pay more than $1 to reach $30,000 — about $1.47.”

Oops. I stand corrected (this isn’t Jared Axelrod). I wrote that late at night after a long day at work. Never mind. That’s why I wasn’t a math major.

By: Niedermeyer

Niedermeyer — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:39:21 +0000

10k is obviously an ambitious goal, but keep in mind that every time you move to a new address you have to reregister. I’d guess that between new students, students who have moved, and students who weren’t registered, there’s 10k in potential “new” registrations out there.

Little Marge actually makes my point for me. There’s a huge coalition of voter registration efforts, particularly targeting young (i.e. democrat) potential voters. Those groups still have every incentive to help Dotters-Katz meet his goal. Eliminating a $30k OSA campus coordinator position won’t negatively impact voter reg efforts at the UO, despite their (and the ASPSU prez’) protests to the contrary.

In fact, if we assume that the campus coordinator was personally responsible for every voter registered in 2006 (and I’m sure Emily McLain would contest that) students would have paid $4.36 per registration that year. That’s a $30k salary divided by 6,875 registrations. That’s not very efficient at all.

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:03:43 +0000

This money would be better spent discouraging old people from voting.

By: Concerned Student

Concerned Student — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:03:17 +0000

J = stoned Jared Axelrod

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:39:15 +0000

UO has 20,394 students. Each would need to pay more than $1 to reach $30,000 — about $1.47.

By: J

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:56:56 +0000

Sorry for two consecutive comments, but how do you get that $30K is more than $1 per student per year? When did UO’s enrollment get that high?

By: J

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:54:43 +0000

Are there even 10,000 unregistered voters at UO? I guess that’s including people who’ve moved or aren’t Oregon voters, but that seems like an awfully high number, with or without OSA. I’ve graduated, moved on and registered in my new state, so it won’t matter to me, but I wonder where he got that number. It’s a great goal and I hope he comes as close to it as possible and that every one of those students votes, but … really?

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:14:20 +0000

Any word on whether Building Votes is being paid with student funds for its help? If not, I would say it doesn’t really matter who is involved with getting the vote out, just as long as money isn’t being wasted on the effort.

By: Large Marge

Large Marge — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:18:44 +0000

A little research would have paid off here. I used to volunteer for these schmucks back when I actually cared about when people vote.

The OSA, OSPIRG, and Building Votes are in a partnership under the name Student Vote Coalition. So, if Dotters-Katz has dumped OSA and is now working with Building Votes, he is still working with the group in coalition (they all share numbers). As long as he works with any three of the group, he’s working with them all.