Takoma Park, Maryland has taken a bold step by expanding voting to a younger group than anywhere else in the United States, allowing voting in civic elections from the age of 16. Read More

Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives included potentially unconstitutional language in a substitute budget bill designed to make it more difficult for students attending Ohio colleges to vote in their college communities. The language would require any public college or university that issues a letter or utility bill to a student for voter ID purposes to charge that student in-state tuition. Current law allows public colleges to provide to any student a letter with the student’s name and current address that the student can then use as voter ID. Private colleges may issue zero-balance utility bills to students living in residence halls. Read More

In the 2012 Presidential election, Barack Obama received 450,000 more votes in Michigan than Mitt Romney, winning the 16 electoral votes up for grabs in the state. But if the election was held again and some state lawmakers had their way, Romney would pick up six electoral votes. What? Read More

Peace, Unity, Love and Havin’ Fun are fun to talk about, but it seems that some young hip hop artists are really working toward that end, through both their music and activism. Read More

2012 was HeadCount’s best year yet.  The key to our success: incredible volunteers and leaders. To recognize their efforts, we’ve named a few as 2012 Award Winners, and we’re sending them all on a free trip on Jam Cruise 11! Special thanks to Jam Cruise and Cloud 9 Adventures for making these incredible prizes possible. And the biggest thanks of all to our award winners and all our volunteers! Read More

Nearly 100 people took part in HeadCount’s Get Out the Vote phone canvas, Jam Cruise Calling, in the lead up to Tuesday’s election. Despite many entries, there can only be one drawing winner and that winner is Jillian Wayman of Nashville, Tennessee. Read More

It was 4 a.m. when Jane and I hit the road in NYC for HeadCount and Magic Hat’s Participation Tour. Not only had we each gotten less than four hours of sleep that night, we were both still recovering from the chaotic post-Hurricane Sandy week behind us. Still, we weren’t tired. Who couldn’t be excited to see NOLAfunk’s Anders Osborne … Read More

With the presidential election upon us, we are back with another update on food and farm policy. These issues seem to get cast aside by the mainstream media, so I am here to help you make an informed and educated decision before you head to the polls. Read More

Education is high on the young voters agenda. Where they’ve been, where they’re going, and how much it’s going to cost to get there. In order to make the right vote for you, it must be an informed vote. Here’s some info that might help. Read More

You’ll often hear the words “freedom” and “liberty” thrown around in the Presidential campaign. What those words mean to each candidate, though, differs greatly. Here’s a quick look. Read More