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‘I am a voter, are you?’: AMAs get political
With the midterm elections around the corner, voting was a hot topic Oct. 9 at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles.

Are you registered to vote? That’s the question thousands of volunteers working for nonprofits have been asking New Yorkers for months in a significant push to engage the public in the democratic process.

Friday marks the last day for New Yorkers to register ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections. New or updated registrations can be completed online, delivered in person to your county’s Board of Elections office or mailed in with a postmark of Oct. 12.

“New York is one of the lowest states in terms of voter turnout and registration,” Lauren Frederico, director of organizing for the New York Civil Liberties Union, said. “We want to make sure New Yorkers are voters – their rights depend on it.”

The NYCLU has been joined by multiple organizations in encouraging voter participation. Nonpartisan nonprofits like HeadCount, the League of Women Voters of New York City (LWVNYC) and even the Girl Scouts of Greater New York have been hosting voter registration drives all over the city ahead of Friday’s deadline.

On Thursday, members of the Girl Scouts braved the rain and wind in an effort to register voters – despite not being old enough to vote themselves. The girls set up voter registration drives in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and the Bronx, according to Meredith Maskara, the CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater New York.

“Ultimately at Girl Scouts we are teaching girls how to step into leadership and to be able to do that, they know they need to be civically engaged,” Maskara said.

There were 4.6 million active registered voters in the city in 2017 – up 134,194 from the year prior, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board. But more than 715,000 eligible New Yorkers didn’t register in time to vote in the citywide election last year, and over 450,000 people remained on the city’s inactive voter rolls.

Nonprofit organizations that are trying to improve those numbers rely on the help of hundreds of volunteers – young and old – in their efforts to register voters.