1. 2014 State Partner Convening Las Vegas, Nevada

2. EARLY VOTING IN CLARK COUNTY

3. 2014 MIDTERM ELECTION

5. Youth 18-29, new citizens, voters of color, low income, female RAE Voters accounted for - 81% of population growth in the US between 2000 and 2010 and… 95% percent! between 2008 and 2010. Now represent over half of eligible voters RISING AMERICAN ELECTORATE

6. A CHANGING ELECTORATE US Census Voter Registration and Voting Survey

7. RECONQUISTA: LATINO POPULATION GROWTH IN THE SOUTHWEST Percent Hispanic Population by County 2010 1836 Mexican Border in red US Census 2010

8. VOTER CONTACT RATES Greenberg, Quinlan, Rosner Poll, 2006 American National Election Studies, 2008 MIDTERM YEAR PRESIDENTIAL YEAR

9. VOTER CONTACT RATES ImpreMedia-Latino Decisions poll Nov 2012

10. TOP REASONS FOR VOTING Source: Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Survey November 2004 First Time Voters = Blue Previous Voters = Red

11. WHO VOTES MATTERS The Party of Non-Voters – Pew Research 2010

12. WHO VOTES MATTERS Who Votes Now: Demographics, Issues, Inequality, and Turnout in the United States, Leighley and Nagler, 2013

13. WHO VOTES MATTERS 2006 ballot measure to raise the minimum wage in Ohio National Election Exit Poll – 2006

14. EXPANDING THE FRANCHISE 2014 Goals Higher Turnout > 41.6% VEP Less Drop Off < 34 million More Representative of the RAE

15. AMERICA GOES TO THE POLLS

16. TESTIMONY FROM NCRP “Groups that register voters and promote voting had greater success (with advocacy) than groups that didn’t engage electorally. Our hypothesis about this is that elected officials pay more attention to policy campaigns of groups that they know can help or hurt them at the polls.” Aron Dorfman, Executive Director, National Council For Responsive Philanthropy, “Leveraging Limited Dollars: How Grantmakers Achieve Tangible Results By Funding Policy & Community Engagement”