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Bite The Ballot (BTB) is a party-neutral movement, based in the United Kingdom. Its mission is to empower young people to evolve UK democracy. BTB was formed in April 2010〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Biting the ballot - the youth vote )〕 by business studies teacher David Hughesman and Michael Sani, along with other staff and students, at Wilmington Enterprise College in Dartford. As a youth-led project, the students’ mission was to rebrand politics and prove that young people do care about improving democracy.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Candidates seek vote from young Londoners )〕 == Timeline == 2010: Bite The Ballot was formed. 2012: In April, Bite The Ballot organised the UK’s first youth voter registration rally 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Press Releases )〕 at the Ministry of Sound. The event 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Want to be mayor? Get in step with London's youth )〕 was organised in collaboration with UpRise, Reprezent Radio, Spirit of London Awards and The Media Trust. The event resulted in 379 individuals being registered to vote. The event was attended by four of the 2012 London mayoral candidates; Brian Paddick〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Brian Paddick gets down with the kids at the Ministry of Sound )〕 Liberal Democrats, Jenny Jones (Green politician) Green Party of England and Wales, Ken Livingstone Labour Party (UK) and the independent candidate, Siobhan Benita. The organisation also launched Inspired Impressions〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=What does it mean to you to be in Britain in 2012? - London 2012 – National Union of Students )〕 - a UK-based art competition. The winning pieces were displayed in the UK Parliament. Later that year, ‘Rock Enrol!’ was created〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rock Enrol!®: engaging young people in democracy )〕 as part of a pilot project with the Cabinet Office's Democratic Engagement Team. This was then digitalized into the educational resource ‘The Basics’.〔http://bitetheballot.co.uk/the-basics/〕 2013: Bite The Ballot launches My Manifesto,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BiteTheBallot » My Manifesto )〕 a research and engagement project that aimed to champion policies that people aged 16–25 identified as being significant. The results were shared with the political parties at a launch event in parliament. 2014: Following the success in 2012, Bite The Ballot wins the European Charlemagne Youth Prize for Inspired impressions.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=UK Winner of Charlemagne Youth Prize : Inspired Impressions )〕 In February, Bite The Ballot launched the UK’s inaugural National Voter Registration Day (UK)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=BBC News - Election 2015: Can registration drive help turnout? )〕 registering an estimated 50,000 people in one day. Later that year Bite The Ballot launched '#TheAmendment' campaign to improve voter registration in Wales. In November, Bite The Ballot, along with ITV News and Twitter UK, hosted a live Q&A session with the main party leaders - Natalie Bennett, Nigel Farage MEP, Nick Clegg MP and Ed Miliband MP - the series is called Leaders Live〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Leaders Live )〕 2015: Ran the second annual National Voter Registration Drive, during the week of 2–8 February 2015, 441,500 people registered〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Campaign encouraging young people to vote set for Wiltshire schools )〕 to vote. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bite The Ballot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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