They partnered with UTEP s Institute for Community-Based Teaching and Learning to plan the event. Although the kids vote does not count toward candidates victory or loss, kids turnout is counted and their votes are tallied. The success of Kids Voting depends on lots of volunteers on election day.
Volunteers guide kids to their picture ballots and ballot box at voting precincts.
Staudt dreamed about the possibility of partnership between Kids Voting and AARP-Vote. This multi-generational effort could be a real shot in the arm toward civic health in the El Paso border region. Meanwhile, the complicated candidates forum was being planned. So instead of thecandidates forum, AARP-Vote leaders decided to stage an event in the UTEP Student Union on September 21 at which materials would be made available to AARP members and university students. The AARP-Vote leaders sparked the development of more partnerships over the September 21 event.