The Northeast Louisiana Young Republicans hosted a voter registration drive outside the SUB last week. The group registered 21 voters, mostly republicans, in the three-hour span.

Aisling Carbery-Shaha registered because she wants to vote against President Barack Obama. Her family voted for Obama in 2008, but she says she’s going in a different direction.

“For the last four years Obama hasn’t done the job he set out to do,” said Carbery-Shaha, a sophomore elementary education major. “[We] gave him a chance. He screwed up, so it’s time to change it.”

While the group is made up of Republicans, Hannah Livingston, one of the groups chartering members, said the goal was not to only sign up Republican voters.

“We definitely feel that it’s important for everybody to get out and vote on Nov. 6,” said Livingston. “No matter who they’re supporting, it’s part of being an American, and it’s part of their rights.”

Livingston said the mission of the group was to sign up voters, not to sign up members of their group.

The drive was on Sept. 11. The group said with it being Patriot Day, it would be appropriate to help people exercise their right to vote on the anniversary of the attacks.

The Ouachita Parish Registrar of Voters also came to campus recently to sign up voters in Scott Plaza.

“We usually try to come out to ULM when they have a function out there, because we’re supposed to do that,” said Christa Medaries, the Registrar for Ouachita Parish.

Medaries said the Registrar’s Office has a duty to sign up voters. The office made two trips to ULM this year, once earlier in the spring.

Ouachita Parish has 102,000 registered voters, but only 55 percent turned out for the 2008 presidential election.

The last day to register to vote for the presidential election is Oct 9. Those interested in registering to vote can visit the Louisiana Secretary of State’s website to register online.

They can also go to the Registrar of Voters Office in the State Office Building on St. John Street in downtown Monroe.