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The free event, starting at 8 p.m. on September 19, will take place in Mercer Village. The entire community and students are invited to attend.

The organizations are partnering together to promote civic engagement in Macon and especially in the higher education institutions. 

“The most exciting aspect of this event —  outside of the increase in civic engagement — is the groundbreaking collaboration of Macon's higher-education institutions in hopes of tackling a common problem: low voter turnout among college students.” says Austin Harrison, Senator on Mercer University’s Student Government Association, “We hope that this is the beginning of a beneficial partnership between these institutions.”

The partners are using TurboVote, a nonprofit service designed to modernize voting and increase citizen participation, to encourage civic engagement among students and the community. TurboVote is an application that makes voting easy. Access collegehill.turbovote.org to sign up for the service.

President of Mercer University’s Student Government Association, Joseph Wozniak said, “We are hoping to remove barriers to voting for our students and increase voter turnout. Many out-of-state students are unaware of Georgia’s voting laws, such as the voter ID law. With this partnership, we’re taking a fun, unique, multi-tiered approach to educate our students on these issues and ultimately create civically engaged students.”