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Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Georgetown University’s Newspaper of Record since 1920

The Hoya

Illustration by Elizabeth Alarcon, Janis Park, Lilia Qian, and Ryan Siebecker | The number of registered voters that voted in the midterms elections increased by 143% from 2016 to 2018

Students Take Action To Make Their Votes Count

By Jaime Moore-Carrillo October 4, 2019

Presidential candidates have already begun flocking to states with the earliest primaries and caucuses. When the four early primaries and caucuses help decide who can continue their campaign, every vote...

GU Votes, an initiative funded by GU Politics, tabled outside residence halls in an effort to increase student voter registration.

GU Votes Seeks to Bolster Absentee Ballots

By Deepika Jonnalagadda September 28, 2018

Students can now request absentee ballots through a voter drop box system implemented in Residence Hall Offices across campus as part of an ongoing effort headed by the Georgetown University Institute...

Voting Rights Regress

By Katharine Viles February 26, 2016

This year, to vote in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I have to print an absentee ballot application form from the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s website and mail the form about two to three weeks...

Students Register for Presidential Primaries

By Ian Harkness February 19, 2016

Georgetown students hailing from states around the country registered to vote by way of absentee ballots in anticipation of upcoming presidential primaries at a voter registration drive called GU Votes:...

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