Colorado Youth Vote - Quick Facts

•    Colorado’s nearly 677,000 18-29 year olds make up 20 percent of state’s population.
•    Fifteen percent of Colorado’s 18-29 year olds are Latino.
•    In 2006, 221,000 18-29 year olds voted in Colorado, up 2 percent or 36,000 votes over 2002 turnout.
Youth Vote on the Rise in Colorado
•    In 2006, in the student dense precincts where the CoPIRG Student Chapters and our allies worked, youth voter turnout surged by 158 to 450% over 2002 turnout rates.
•    In Boulder, where the CoPIRG Student Chapters ran an extensive youth voter mobilization program - new voter registrations in 2004 increased by 50% over 2000 levels, while registered voter turnout increased from 42% in 2000, to 55% in 2004.


CoPIRG Student Chapters  Youth Voter Mobilization Leaders

Emily Schosid, 20 - Junior at the University of Colorado at Boulder
Emily has been working with CoPIRG since 2006 on various public interest environmental campaigns. She is currently the coordinator of CoPIRG’s Campus Climate Challenge campaign at CU Boulder, and is planning to mobilize thousands of students on campus to take concrete action to fight global warming both on campus and throughout the state.  This fall Emily also helped to organize a group of twenty CU Boulder students to attend a Hillary Clinton rally in Denver as part of CoPIRG’s What’s Your Plan? campaign.

John Hagenbrok, 24 – University of Colorado at Denver
John is the coordinator of CoPIRG’s What’s Your Plan? campaign on campus. He also helped to organize students to get VIP passes to a Hillary Clinton event earlier this year to ask her what her plans are on key youth issues – and got face to face with the candidate when she reached over a crowd to shake his hand when she saw he was wearing a CoPIRG What’s Your Plan? t-shirt! He has worked with student government members and other student groups on campus to register voters leading up to the February 5th caucuses. John attended Power Shift, the largest youth conference on global warming ever, and took ideas and inspiration from the conference back to campus.