Campus politicos are putting allegiances aside to make resident voices through student voter registration drives this semester.

In the recent past, the Georgetown University College Democrats have been the only major sponsors of voter drives on campus.

“Every year around October, we go to every freshman dorm and knock on every single door to ask them if they’d like to register to vote,” Vail Kohnert-Yount (SFS ’13), president of the College Democrats, said.

This year’s College Democrat voter registration drive was unique, however, in that it was co-sponsored by the College Republicans and D.C. Students Speak.

Joseph Knowles (COL ’12), chairman of the College Republicans, said he was not sure why his political group has not held voter signups in previous years.

“This year I proposed to the College Democrats and pushed for a co-sponsored voter drive. I think the two groups cooperating will provide more credibility to the non-partisan quality of the event,” Knowles said.

Joe Vandergriff (COL ’14), membership director of the College Democrats, stressed that the campus’ political groups share a common goal of making young votes count despite their competing political ideologies.

“We have the same objectives. We want to make our voices to be heard,” Vandergriff said. “The demographic of our age is not represented enough.”

According to Kohnert-Yount, the joint drive registered about 100 students, an amount in line with past drives.

For College Democrats Darnall Hall Dorm Captain Nora West (SFS ’15), the long-term mission of the drive was worth her volunteer hours.

“The whole goal of the drive is to get more people to vote, regardless of who they are voting for,” she said. “Civic involvement begins with voting, so registering even one voter is worth our time.”

The Georgetown chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People also held a voter registration drive last Friday.

“In the past, the voter drives weren’t as successful as we hoped [they] could be. However, this year, the goal of our political action committee is clear. We aim to register more people who are underrepresented on-campus and off-campus to vote,” said Rashawn Davis (COL ’14), chair of the Georgetown NAACP PAC.

According to Davis, however, the chapter’s hopes for the drive did not come to fruition.

“We aimed to register at least 50 people but only ended up with around 15 people,” he said. “A lot of students said they were uncomfortable with registering, while some felt that their votes wouldn’t make a difference.”

The NAACP will hold another push for registration at the D.C. high school fair at Eastern Senior High School this Saturday. It aims to register the parents of D.C. high school students.

“Eastern High school is in a neighborhood where 20 to 30 percent of the people, many of them African-Americans, aren’t registered for voting,” Davis said. “With that many people present at the occasion, we can really make an impact there.”

Davis said the chapter plans to hold an additional voter registration drive before Christmas and more in the spring semester in preparation for the District’s April elections.