#16ToVoteAdvocacyProject

Behind the Scenes: #16ToVote Advocacy Project and the Guy with a Plan!

A picture of me in Colorado being interviewed during my walk across the United States in 2015. I had just passed a little more than the halfway point in early August of that year.

New blog address, new effort to lower the voting age! But before I get into the details, I think an introduction would be proper.

My name is Jester Jersey and I was born, raised and live in California. For many years, I have been a supporter of lowering the voting age to 16. The story is long, so I’ll save it for another blog post. For now, I want to just introduce you to some basic stuff about me.

Although I’ve lived in California for many years, I had the opportunity to travel extensively in 2015, when I walked across the United States from New York City to San Francisco. At the time, I had just joined Kiwanis a few years back and wanted to help promote the Eliminate Project.

I was a little surprised at the media attention it got, as I was on several papers of cities I had traveled to and even on local television a few times, like with the pic above. I am hoping to have a more focused campaign that deals specifically with lowering the voting age, and I’ll be detailing what I can.

If you’re here, you’re probably interested in helping to lower the voting age to 16. You might have also stumbled onto my blog or was referred here to learn about the new movement. Either reason is fine. If you’re curious about wanting to help out and are convinced you want to help after reading my blog post in the next few weeks, then reach out to me. If you can’t help directly, there are other ways you can still help. Just leave a comment here or contact me through Twitter and I’ll fill you in on how you can help. Thanks!

Jester Jersey

#16ToVote Advocacy Project 2020

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Hi everyone,

My name is Jester Jersey and I am behind the #16ToVote Advocacy Project. This project will be a movement to unite as many supporters of lowering the voting age to 16, raise awareness of the movement nationwide, provide support to current movements throughout the U.S., and a speaking tour in order to attract media attention to the cause.

This blog website will be my base of online operations. I have also linked my new Twitter account that I want to use for this special project, in addition to my other account, @DavisKiwanian, which I will use for support for my main one and act as a backup in case it is needed. Please keep this blog and my main Twitter account bookmarked so that you can get all the info you need during the campaign and speaking tour, as I will be updating both as frequently as possible.

Meanwhile, feel free to email at the email address I used to contact your organization with. I hope to try to update this blog weekly prior to the campaign so that I do not have to message each organization individually, but feel free to contact me at the method most appropriate for your inquiry.

Thank you for reading. I look forward to keeping everyone who is active in some form of the movement in the United States updated, regardless of where you are operating from or how long your movement has been active. I look forward to working with all the organizations I can, bring awareness to the movement in general to as broad an audience as possible, and perhaps, with your help, finally actually lower the voting age to 16 to more cities outside Maryland wherever possible.

With your help, we can make it happen together!

-Jеstеr Jеrsеy

New Year, New Push for #16ToVote!

Martin Luther King Jr. waves to the crowd in front of the Lincoln Memorial overlooking the National Mall on the day he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. (Photo courtesy of time.com)

Greetings all! Happy New Year and Happy National #GoodTeenDay! Today’s post marks the first post of 2020, as well as the eve of Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.

Rather than summarizing some of the previous posts from the last few months(there will be an update at the time of the state of the union address), I’ve decided to post about a project I’m currently working on for the #16ToVote movement.

As some organizations have known in the last few months, I’ve been contacting representatives from different #16ToVote movements in hopes of stopping by areas where their movements have been active. I am working on trying to get additional media coverage for the movement and have gotten good reporting leads. I would like to expand those further by getting in contact with more people and organizations they are working with.

So far, I’ve managed to map out a route of different locations of when I’ll be and where. I’ve even managed to get some sponsors interested in the idea! Planning stages for it are currently in progress. However, I’ll still be needing your help.

Currently, I have a need for the following:

References to organizations I haven’t already contacted that support #16ToVote. I’d like to set up dates and times where I can possibly speak to them.
Good venue suggestions where I can give a short talk about the #16ToVote movement.
Social media handle suggestions. I want to get in touch with different organizations’ social media profiles so we can stay in contact with each other. Twitter preferred, but all social media suggestions are welcome.
Media connections, such as news reporters, magazine journalists and even podcasts or radio station connections.
Any other material that you think might be of help not already mentioned above.
It is best to reach me through Twitter at @DavisKiwanian. DMs will be open if you want to give me additional contact information through there, if it is not already available on your Twitter profile. Otherwise, send me the best way to reach you and your organization by email through there.

I believe now is the right time for all #16ToVote movements to band together and fight for the cause together!

Thank you, and I look forward to hearing from and working with your respective movements in 2020!

-Jеstеr Jеrsеy