Lewisburg students help peers register and vote with League effort
Two Lewisburg Area seniors helped scores of classmates become informed voters through the League of Women Voters’ Mauch Millennial Project.
Lewisburg Area High School seniors Katelyn Chen and Cecilia Cuñado-James spent their 2025-26 internship year helping scores of classmates become informed voters through the League of Women Voters of the Lewisburg Area’s Mauch Millennial Project. The student-led push put young people at the center of voter education in Union County, with a focus on registration awareness, local issues and getting peers to show up at the ballot box.
The effort mattered because it aimed at the barriers that often keep first-time voters on the sidelines: confusion about how to register, weak awareness of local races and skepticism that a single vote can affect school boards, borough councils, county commissioners and state offices. By using classmates to carry the message, the project tried to make voting feel less abstract and more like part of everyday life in Lewisburg.
The League of Women Voters of the Lewisburg Area describes its work with the slogan “Empowering Voters. Defending Democracy.” Its nonpartisan approach showed up in a municipal-election voters guide it published for Union County voters ahead of the Tuesday, November 4, 2025 election. The guide was prepared by the League and listed candidates on the official ballot, giving residents a single place to compare names before heading to the polls.
The project also fit into a broader League rhythm tied to election years. A September 2025 newsletter said Bucknell Mauch Fellows were hired only during national election years, with 2025 marked as an off year. That detail left the student internship effort as part of a larger civic-education structure rather than a one-time school assignment.
For Lewisburg, the question is practical: whether student outreach can move first-time turnout in a town where civic life runs through schools, local government and community institutions. Chen and Cuñado-James helped test that by turning peer influence into a voter-registration and education campaign, and by making participation feel normal before those students leave Lewisburg for college, work or the next election cycle.
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