{"id":320,"date":"2008-09-16T14:03:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T19:03:16","slug":"obama-registers-60-students-to-vote-a-day-at-mason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/16\/obama-registers-60-students-to-vote-a-day-at-mason\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Registers 60 Students to Vote a Day at Mason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote1.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Are You Registered to Vote?&quot;\" title=\"Volunteers Register Students to Vote\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At George Mason University, volunteers for Presidential Nominee Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign are registering 50-60 students to vote everyday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being a recent college graduate myself, I know a lot of students forget to register or forget to register in the right place. I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to register to vote in what&#8217;s going to be a very important election,&#8221; said Ben Leiotta who coordinates the registration efforts. <\/p>\n<p>Registering Democrats and Republicans alike, volunteers staff a table outside the Johnson Center Monday through Friday and, when staff numbers permit, approach students to ensure they are registered properly. <\/p>\n<p>According to volunteers, reactions to their presence have been positive. The group coordinates efforts at Northern Virginia Community College as well. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/masonvotes.gmu.edu\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote2.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers Staff a Voter Registration Table Outside the Johnson Center\" title=\"Voter Registration Table\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote2.jpg 480w, https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/reg-2-vote2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At George Mason University, volunteers for Presidential Nominee Barack Obama&#8217;s campaign are registering 50-60 students to vote everyday. &#8220;Being a recent college graduate myself, I know a lot of students forget to register or forget to register in the right place. I want to make sure everyone gets a chance to register to vote in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masonvotes.masonstudentmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}