TX Votes is a non-partisan, issue-neutral student organization that registers voters, educates students about the electoral process, and encourages voter turnout at UT Austin.  

Fall Highlights:  

TX Votes implemented dynamic initiatives to enhance voter registration and civic engagement on campus. Engaging with key university events, they registered students and recruited new members during Gone to Texas, Party on the Plaza, and Mooov-in.

Participation in civic holidays, saw collaborative with partners for impactful voter registration activities, including a major event on National Voter Registration Day. Voter Education Week combined in-person and social media outreach and extensive tabling that targeted high frequently places like the libraries and dining halls on the final registration day.

Outreach effort involved presentations in student organization meetings and classes, and coordination with faculty has been a longstanding core strategy. Streamlining student organization outreach, hosting voter education events, utilizing on campus resources, and social media channels and newsletters, TX Vote made significant strides in simplifying the voting process and empowering students.

Partnerships

The Civic Engagement Alliance is a coalition of student organizations working to encourage students to be civically engaged. TX Votes leadership cultivated close relationships with other civic engagement organizations, including TX Rising, MOVE Texas, Hook the Vote, the University Democrats and Texas PIRG Student Action. This has created robust and ongoing collaboration that has strengthened on-campus voter registration efforts.

Student organizations at UT Austin that currently participate in the CEA include: the American Society of Civil Engineers, The Texas Orator, Engineering LGBQTies, the UT Student Government Women's Resource Agency, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Communication Council, Seva Charities, the Liberal Arts Council, BridgeTexas, Texas Sunshines, the Education Council, Socks for the Sole, Texas Lassos, Partners in Health Engage at UT Austin, the Public Relations Student Society of America (Texas PRSSA), Engineers for a Sustainable World, Absolute Texxas, Texas Rising, MOVE Texas, the University Democrats, Hook the Vote, and Texas PIRG Student Action.

In order to amplify partnerships with student organizations, TX Votes launched the Civic Champions program which will have its first participants in Spring of 2024. The Civic Champions program incentivizes student organizations to complete activities in four categories of civic engagement: voting, volunteering, advocacy, and community. Student organizations that participate will receive recognition and are eligible for a monetary award. 

TX Votes also partnered with a record number of university departments and divisions including University Housing and Dining, Office of the VP for Student Affairs, UT Libraries, and the Office of the First-Year Experience.