The Inter-Residence Hall Association and the New Voters Project will be teaming up to increase student interest in voting if a bill is passed.

The endorsement was written by Kyle Perkins, Towers Residence Association president, and David Breutzmann, an intern for the New Voters Project and senior in computer science, as a way to promote student voting in the residence halls.

Perkins said the proposal is just an endorsement, but it would mean closer involvement with the New Voters Project.

The New Voters Project is a non-partisan, national effort to increase voter turnouts among people ages 18 to 24 in elections, said Seth Landau, campus coordinator for the New Voters Project.

“[The goal] is to get as many people on campus involved in democracy as possible,” Landau said.

The group has been active on campus since January and has been working on the foundations of other projects such as the Youth Voter Coalition, he said. The Youth Voter Coalition was formed by the Public Interest Research Group two years ago and has been successful in registering 4,000 new voters.

The New Voters Project would like to have 75 percent of the campus registered to vote. It has been working with a number of campus organizations including the Government of the Student Body, ISU Democrats, ISU College Republicans and Iowa State Libertarians, he said.

“We’d like for the residence halls to register all their residents to vote,” he said.

Many of the activities are being put off until spring, but there are a few things the New Voters Project hopes to accomplish, Breutzmann said.

He said he would like to have voter registration forms in all the resident assistants’ rooms and have the resident assistants be able to show people how to fill them out properly.

The goal is to educate and train students to be leaders and citizens in American society, he said.

“I think [students] just need to be aware of how important their vote is,” Perkins said.