Grand Valley to offer students transportation to the polls

Grand Valley State University will provide transportation to the Allendale polling location for students on Election Day.

"Voter vans" will run every 20 minutes from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. on November 8. The pick-up and drop-off location is the bus stop in front of Kirkhof Center on the Allendale Campus. Students will be taken to the Allendale Charter Township voting precinct at Life Stream Church, located at 6561 Lake Michigan Dr.

Since August, more than 3,000 students have become registered voters thanks to on-campus efforts to educate and encourage students about registration and voting.

Those efforts have earned Grand Valley recognition. The university was recently designated as a Voter Friendly Campus by Campus Vote Project, a national initiative that helps universities empower students with information they need to vote. Grand Valley holds the record for the university with the highest number of voter registration applications submitted in one day to the Secretary of State's Mobile Unit. The unit was on campus on National Voter Registration Day September 27.

Transportation is organized by Grand Valley's Student Senate and the Community Service Learning Center.

For more information about voting efforts, visit gvsu.edu/service/vote.