Contact: Betty Ann Lucey, 240-777-8520
For Immediate Release: June 26, 2001

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
REGISTER TO VOTE

More than 3,300 Montgomery County public and private high school students registered to vote during the recent Annual High School Voter Registration Drive.

The Board of Elections, in cooperation with the Board of Education, registered students at 22 public and seven private high schools in the County between April 23 and April 25. The voter registration drive was held in conjunction with the election for the student representative on the Board of Education.

Students who served as registrars for the participating schools were trained by elections officials on how to register voters. Individual schools then conducted their own registration drives. The party distribution of the newly-registered voters includes 1,919 Democrats, 614 Republicans, 19 Libertarians, 48 Green Party, two Reform Party and 700 who declined to affiliate with a party.

Since 1971, the annual high school drive has registered 107,659 voters in the County.

Students who will reach their 18th birthday by November 5, 2002 are eligible to register to vote. For more information, call the Board of Elections at 240-777-VOTE or 240-777-8500, or visit the web site at www.co.mo.md.us/services/elections.