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Conservative group says Republicans should focus on off-campus voter outreach
A campaign to increase voter participation run by the University of Minnesota’s student government is being manned primarily by Democratic Party activists.
The Undergraduate Student Government at UMinn runs a periodical initiative to increase voter turnout among students at the university called the Row the Vote Campaign. This year, the Row the Vote Campaign partnered with The ‘Sota Project to visit classrooms to register students to vote and help them make plans to cast their ballot.
According to the school’s student government website, the Row the Vote campaign, “is a nonpartisan campaign led by the Undergraduate Student Government aimed at increasing voter registration and turnout among students.”
Similarly, The ‘Sota Project “was founded in 2026 as a response to falling student voter turnout nationwide in the 2024 elections,” according to the group’s website. The ‘Sota Project links to a left-of-center voting guide, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota, on its website. It also says it targets swing states Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania in its efforts.
According to an article in The Minnesota Daily, Will Luther and Anousha Mozammel, both directors for UMinn’s student government, organized efforts for the Row the Vote campaign. As a representative from The ‘Sota Project, Tripp Trokioka also worked with Luther (pictured, left) and Mozammel (pictured, right) to increase college voter turnout at the school.
Luther and Trokioka visited classrooms on behalf of the Row the Vote campaign and The ‘Sota Project and also registered students through tabling on campus.
Luther is not only a member of the College Democrats, but also a delegate for the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which is Minnesota’s version of the national political party. He is also the executive director of government and legislative affairs for the school’s undergraduate student government. (Screenshots from his LinkedIn below).
Mozammel is also currently a volunteer for Democratic Congressional candidate Jake Johnson.
Tripp Trokioka, interned for Minnesota Democratic Representative Ed Case during the summer of 2025.
The Fix attempted to contact Luther, Mozammel, Trokioka, and UMinn’s student government for comment multiple times over email, but was unsuccessful.
A spokesman for the University of Minnesota said the student government was independent and directed questions their way, but did not connect The Fix with a representative.
A conservative advocacy group in Minnesota said Republicans would better focus their time on turning out voters off-campus, since most college students lean left.
“My concern isn’t about election interference,” Jake Duesenberg told The College Fix via email.
“Smart operatives on the left have long employed strategies to turn out the college vote in a non-partisan way because the college age electorate votes heavily for Democrats,” the founder of Action 4 Liberty said.
“A get-out-the-vote effort on college campuses doesn’t even need to be partisan—they just need to drive up voting amongst a base that leans heavily their direction,” he said.
However, college students are not a large voting bloc, the conservative activist said.
“If a young conservative wants to counter campus [get-out-the-vote] efforts, their time would be better utilized getting off campus and helping out [get-out-the-vote] efforts that are directed at turning out Republican crowds.”
