{"id":11,"date":"2024-04-04T18:54:05","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2026-10-14T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T14:33:21","slug":"goal-of-the-initiative","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/goal-of-the-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Goal of the Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>True Blue Voter&nbsp;<\/strong>seeks to&nbsp;<strong>increase the number of MTSU students who are registered to vote to 85% and who vote to 55% by 2020.&nbsp;<\/strong>To accomplish this goal, MTSU will:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Convene the&nbsp;<strong>Rutherford County Election Commission<\/strong>&nbsp;administrator,&nbsp;<strong>MTSU Student Government Association<\/strong>&nbsp;leaders, and the leadership of the&nbsp;<strong>MTSU American Democracy Project<\/strong>&nbsp;to provide the voter procedure and voting practices expertise to identify the resources and best practices required to engage significantly increased numbers of MTSU students in voting.&nbsp;The primary task of the partnership: Assist students in learning the best ways to register and to vote and to help them become successful voters through individualized processes that best fit their unique circumstances.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coordinate new campaigns in voter registration and student voting, which assist all our students to successfully become engaged, voting citizens, through supportive activities that advance students\u2019 civic skills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Facilitate and develop marketing and communications activities and timeline to implement the&nbsp;<strong>True Blue Voter&nbsp;<\/strong>initiative through the MTSU Division of Marketing and Communications, toward our shared goal of every student\u2019s success at becoming a&nbsp;<strong>True Blue Voter<\/strong>. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/04\/smithfarley20180524D003-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"MTSU Board of Trust Chairman Stephen Smith with Rutherford County Election Commission Administrator Alan Farley\" class=\"wp-image-18\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/04\/smithfarley20180524D003-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/04\/smithfarley20180524D003-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/04\/smithfarley20180524D003-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/04\/smithfarley20180524D003-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/109\/2024\/04\/smithfarley20180524D003.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">MTSU Board of Trust Chairman Stephen Smith with Rutherford County Election Commission Administrator Alan Farley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Blue Voter&nbsp;seeks to&nbsp;increase the number of MTSU students who are registered to vote to 85% and who vote to 55% by 2020.&nbsp;To accomplish this goal, MTSU will:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/truebluevoter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}