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Voto Joven is a Venezuelan non-government organization whose purpose is to promote electoral registration and participation, as well as the correct development of electoral processes. It is made up of university students, community leaders, workers and political party activists and was created in later 2009 to promote political participation in the 2010 parliamentary elections.
History
The organization is known for having motivated approximately 750,000 young people to register to vote in the first four months of 2010, a figure that was matched in the country in the previous three years.
In the early morning of the day of the 2010 parliamentary elections, members of Plan República raided a Voto Joven complaint center that had been installed at the Simón Bolívar University, entering with assault weapons and taking three computers, without a search warrant and in violation of university autonomy. Voto Joven assisted the 2017 Venezuelan consultation process, along with organizations such as Súmate and EsData.
In popular culture
Voto Joven was featured in the 2012 documentary film A Whisper to a Roar.
See also
References
- "Consideran que Voto Joven es una organización que promueve y defiende el derecho al sufragio". Noticias24. El Nacional. 12 March 2012. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- "VotoJoven". Archived from the original on 19 July 2017. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
- "Liberados los tres miembros de ONG Voto Joven". Noticiero Digital. 26 September 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
- "Lo que debe saber sobre la consulta popular del 16J". Comunicas. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
- Scharfenberg, Ewald (2013-03-27). "La oposición estudiantil se vuelca para exigir elecciones limpias en Venezuela". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2024-03-31.