With Saturday’s deadline for online and mail-in voter registration fast approaching (you are registered, right?), Seattle University has announced a plan: to get 100% of its students registered, and then to get all of them to vote, although I assume that some portion of the student body isn’t legally able to vote. I wonder if this is also going to involve setting up carpools to Renton, where you can register in person at the King County Elections office until the 20th [PI].

For the next couple of days they’ll be posting flyers and taking out ads and setting up voter registration tables all over campus, and tracking how many people register online through school computers. It’ll be interesting to see how well this works for them, although I hope it’s a great success. (I also hope that nothing goes wrong and ruins elections for those who are old enough to vote for the first time, like it did for those of us who had our first election in Florida in 2000.) No data is available yet, but I think that the easier you make the process, the more people will register. Maybe it could involve cookies.

More interesting, I think, will be to watch how the university badgers the students who registered into actually casting their vote. That should probably involve cookies too.