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Good morning!
New Jersey voters voted in state elections yesterday. The election stirred some of Princeton’s political groups to action. Co-president of Princeton College Democrats, Nate Howard ’25, described some of the efforts the organization did in the lead-up to the election, including non-partisan letter-writing campaigns to voters in Virginia and recent canvassing efforts in New Jersey. He noted that the group has “knocked [on] over 1,000 doors” thus far this semester.
Elections often bring up the name of a different student group: Vote100, the campus campaign that aims for 100 percent of the student body to engage civically and has gained momentum within the past few years. In the 2020 presidential election, the group touted their own efforts to help the undergraduate voting rate reach a record-breaking 75.4 percent, an increase of 24.9 percent since the 2016 presidential election. This year, the group offered free Lyft rides to the Princeton fire station for those voting in the town. The group also had free coffee and donuts for students near McCosh Walk in the morning and took “I voted” photos in front of Whig Hall in the afternoon.
In election results that have been already announced, Andrew Zwicker was re-elected as a state senator to New Jersey’s 16th Legislative district, which includes Princeton. He also is an educator at the University’s Plasma Physics Laboratory.
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Analysis by Victoria Davies
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