VERA Workshop Resources

The New England VERA offers the following resources for you to plan and present VERA workshops. You will most likely want to adapt the Power Point template for your presentation.

• Join VERA Flyer
• VERA FAQ
• VERA Workshop Sign-up form
• VERA Workshop Agenda sample
• VERA Workshop Outline
• VERA Post-election Report form
• VERA Power Point Presentation template
• VERA Student Survey
• History of Voting Rights Activity

VERA Activities Schedule
A September-Election Day schedule, developed by our colleagues in NH, that programs can use to plan their VERA activities. The Power Wall activity mentioned on the schedule can be found here.

Making the Case for Voter Education

New report by ETS: Fault Lines in Our Democracy. Civic Knowledge, Voting Behavior, and Civic Engagement in the United States (pdf)

“The relationship between educational attainment and voting is strong. The data show a decline in voting across all educational attainment levels since 1964. But the decline is particularly steep for the population with lower education levels. For those with nine to 12 years of school but no diploma or GED, the voting rate fell by nearly half between 1964 and 2008, from 65 to 34 percent. The decline was even steeper for those with less than a ninth-grade education, dropping from 59 to 23 percent. Among the U.S. population with at least some college, the decline in voting was less steep.” (p 15)

“The nation’s less educated, low-income, and young adults have voluntarily disenfranchised themselves from the voting process.” (p. 17)

To learn more about the NELRC, our workshops, or about submitting links and materials for this site, please contact Ben Bruno.