The recent efforts of Pack the Polls, a student-run initiative to register students to vote, have led to 1,000 new registrations, chair Ches McDowell said.

This is 9,000 less than Pack the Poll’s original goal, but Student Body President Jay Dawkins said that number did not include registration from aiding groups, which he estimates registered around several hundred more students.

“I really think every voter who’s going to vote is already registered,” said Ches McDowell, a sophomore in political science and one of the organizers of Pack the Polls. “Or they’re just going to do the one stop voting.”

Seventy-eight percent of students responded that they are registered to vote.

McDowell said that the organization had made some brochures to place on Wolfline buses.

These brochures, he said, tell voters the time of voting and what each voter needs in order to vote.

In addition to brochures, Pack the Polls is going to be stationing vans around campus on election day to transport students to polling centers.

“We’re going to have one going to [the voting center on] Method road, and two or three going to Pullen Park,” McDowell said.

Pack the Polls helped Aja Daniels, a sophomore in business management, change her voting district, Daniels said.

According to McDowell, the influence of students trying to register others has a limit, as those who do not want to vote won’t want to register.