Here's To Making California a "Swing" State

A new young voter organization promises to make waves and stir up controversy this election season.

Votergasm, a new outreach organization out of Brooklyn, NY, has set out to increase voter turnout amongst younger voters. This is not an unusual cause, but their means are somewhat unorthodox, to say the least.

From their information page:

"Votergasm is a non-partisan nonprofit campaign formed to simultaneously reverse two disturbing trends in American society: low voting rates among young people, and unacceptably low rates of youth sexual activity. The focus of Votergasm.org is to encourage young people everywhere to pledge to have sex with voters on Election Night, and withhold sex from non-voters until the next presidential election.

Votergasm seeks to send 100,000 first-time 18-to-25-year-old voters to polls for the 2004 elections, and to catalyze 250,000 orgasms by the morning of November 3."

This is, without a doubt, an excellent way to relate to student voters on a much simpler and more appealing manner. Now, for any skeptics who think that there is no way that this is going to work in Berkeley (not a contested area), the website claims that there will be a party at the Claremont Hotel Pool on Election Night. If that isn't enough to make you want to sign up and vote, I don't know what is.Email This Post!