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Mike Aspen
League of Men Voters, President and Founder
(402) 592-3585
menvoters@aol.com

 

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Dec. 4, 2003 (Omaha, NE ) - Mike Aspen, President and Founder of the League of Men Voters®, today announced steps to further the non-profit organization’s objective of targeting millions of men to register and to vote in all 50 states.

 

• A new web site has been created at www.leagueofmenvoters.org, offering statistical and narrative information about the societal problem being addressed by the League: the unfortunate decline of male participation at all levels of voting. The site also includes an in-depth explanation of the organization and its goals, access to voter registration forms and much more.

 

• A reciprocal web link arrangement with Project Vote Smart (www.vote-smart.org) provides visitors to the League’s web site an easy path to unbiased information on thousands of candidates and issues. Project Vote Smart (PVS) also reports the voting records of current officeholders as well as campaign finance information. Says Aspen, “Obviously, the League of Men Voters wishes to encourage our supporters and web site visitors to research issues and candidates. Project Vote Smart provides this information better than any other organization with which I am familiar.”

 

• The League also launched a fundraiser appeal to residents in its home state of Nebraska. “Writing the fundraiser letter was challenging”, said Aspen. “We need first and foremost to introduce our organization because we are a newcomer to ‘get out the vote’ campaigns. And then, since men have never before been targeted as a voter demographic, we need to emphasize there is a clear and present danger to men if they do not begin voting in numbers comparable to their rates of approximately 25-years ago, when they voted at the same rate as women. Men must immediately reverse this trend and start voting in far greater number or face the very real prospect of occasionally having little or no influence on their representatives in matters uniquely relevant to them as a voter demographic.

 

In the 2000 election, Census Bureau statistics show 15.02% more women than men reported voting nationally. This represents a 7.72 million vote gap. Says Aspen, “Our presentation and analysis of this gender vote gap comes as somewhat of a shock to many people because they have scarcely been informed of a numerical gender vote gap by press and media sources. I would say the vast majority of Americans are unaware of any numerical voting gap between the sexes, much less that it is so huge!”

 

LEAGUE OF MEN VOTERS CONTACT INFORMATION:

Michael R. Aspen
menvoters@aol.com
(402) 592-3585

Mr. Aspen is available for interviews.

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