The UW-Madison Vote Coalition kicked off a campaign to mobilize student voters Thursday.
ASM Legislative Affairs Committee Chair and Vote Coalition member Hannah Somers said the group's main goals for the year are to register students to vote, make sure students are informed on new voter identification laws and motivate students to vote.
Under a new state law, UW-Madison students will no longer be able to vote using WISCards as identification. The university will provide students with a second form of identification to vote with this spring.
Somers said group members hope to make sure students know what they need to vote under the new law.
"I think students are aware things have changed, but I don't think they know what that means," Somers said.
So far, group members have registered over 150 students to vote. Somers said she hopes the coalition can match or exceed the 1,000 students it registered to vote in 2008.
