The Columbus affiliate runs regular voter registration drives on the Mississippi University for Women campus. Generally held annually each fall and multiple times during presidential and mid-term election years, we enjoy assisting students and community members with updating their voter registration or registering for the first time.

To learn more about our current voter registration drives or to request assistance with registering to vote, please contact us via Facebook or by reaching out to one of our officers.

The Columbus affiliate was very active in the 2012 AAUW Action Fund’s “It’s My Vote: I Will Be Heard” voter education and turnout campaign, which represented an unprecedented investment in making women’s voices heard in the 2012 election. We organized seven registration drives on the Mississippi University for Women campus and in the wider Columbus area, registering new voters in Mississippi and Alabama and helping students from other states to learn how to connect to their local registration office. Along with registering voters, we also distributed information about election issues that were especially pertinent to women and college-aged voters and used post cards and phone calls to encourage people to get out and vote on Election Day. To further galvanize student interest in this important election we joined with the MUW Honors College to sponsor two speakers on campus. We invited Mississippi State Senator Sally Doty, an MUW alumna, to speak to students about “Campaigns and Common Sense: How to Keep your Sanity in the Crazy World of Politics,” and Jackson-area lawyer and AAUW representative Elizabeth Crowell presented “It is Your Vote and It Still Matters.” Other activities included hosting a Debate Watch Party and organizing a “Get Out the Vote” phone bank in the days leading up to the election.