The City of Philadelphia announced Tuesday that the Mayor’s Office of Youth Engagement (OYE) is launching a youth-led voter registration effort leading up to the Nov. 3 general election involving contactless registration via T-shirts.

The First Vote 2020 initiative, launched last year to get members of Gen Z — many of whom are newly eligible to vote — registered and informed for this year’s elections. The initiative is aimed at engaging with young people about the ways they can exercise civic participation up to Election Day. Throughout the spring, First Vote 2020 efforts supported the work of census-focused Philly Counts and get-out-the-vote programs such as Vote that Jawn.

Now, as the voter registration deadline of Oct. 19 nears for Pennsylvania voters, volunteers will be wearing VRTees, or voter registration T-shirts, while engaging their peers, friends and family about voting.

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