Check this piece on Wiretap (!) about all the feminist organizing that has been going on around the elections by Feminist Campus and Planned Parenthood among others and the students that are mobilizing to "Get Out Her Vote!" Some polls are even saying that outreach to young women in South Dakota may actually work and young women may vote to block anti-abortion initiatives. Good shit.

A special voting event held last week at Black Hills State University laid bare the fierce competition going on throughout South Dakota to sway Election Day votes on the measure that would continue the state-wide abortion ban.

It was the Genocide Awareness Project, an anti-abortion outfit sponsored by the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform, versus the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance (FMLA), the group affiliated with the Feminist Majority Foundation and Feminist Campus, a nonpartisan pro-choice network of students around the globe.

And this midterm election season, Feminist Campus is mobilizing hundreds of its members at campuses nationwide in a deeply inspired voter outreach program as part of the "Get Out Her Vote" campaign.

"We are working on a big voter registration drive," said Kate Neilson, an East Coast Organizer with Feminist Campus. "Only about 20 percent of 18-to 24-year-olds vote in midterm elections. It is such a difficult process to go through, and we want to take one step out of it for them."

Go out and get your feminist vote on!

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