"Smackdown Your Vote!" Registers 10,000 Voters In A Week.Business Editors STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 11, 2000 World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. (NMS See NetWare Management System. : WWFE WWFE World Wrestling Federation Entertainment Inc. ), MTV's Choose or Lose, Youth Vote 2000 and Project Vote Smart today announced that more than 10,000 people registered to vote within the first week of their non-partisan "Smackdown Your Vote!" campaign. Registrations have occurred during WWF See Windows Workflow Foundation. arena events, at WWF New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , a site-based entertainment complex in New York City's Time Square, and through the company's web site, WWFvote.com, as well as MTV's chooseorlose.com. The Web site has received more than 90,000 page views in the first week since its launch on August 2, 2000. The web site links to an on-line voter registration Voter registration is the requirement in some democracies for citizens to check in with some central registry before being allowed to vote in elections. An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive. Centralized/compulsory vs. site and the web sites of the other "Smackdown Your Vote!" partners. The registrations also were precipitated by the premiere of MTV's Choose or Lose's and Rock the Vote's latest public service announcements (PSAs). The PSAs, featuring well-known figures in politics and entertainment, are running on MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. . Youth Vote 2000 is managing the registrations at the arena events. "This is a tremendous response to the first week of our program," said Linda McMahon Linda Marie Edwards-McMahon (born October 4 1948 in New Bern, North Carolina) is the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. and is the wife of World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon. , Chief Executive Officer of WWFE. "It demonstrates that we are meeting a real need and reaching a target audience that has yet to exercise their right to vote." Ms. McMahon will be in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. during next week's Democratic National Convention to continue promoting voter registrations through "Smackdown Your Vote!" The non-partisan initiative launched in early August, aims to register WWF viewers eligible to vote in this year's elections. It is estimated that about a third or more of the 14 million WWF viewers eligible to vote are not currently registered to vote. Other WWF Superstars WWF Superstars is an arcade game manufactured by Technos and released in 1989. It is the first WWF arcade game to be released. A series of unrelated games with the same title were released by LJN for the original Game Boy. may also attend the convention. In addition, Ms. McMahon will work with the National Foundation for Women Legislators The National Foundation for Women Legislators is an organization founded nearly seven decades ago, dedicated to increasing the number of women in state legislative office throughout the 50 states and territories of the United States. , a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to ensuring that women continue the gains they have made in assuming legislative office in America. The WWF's appearance at the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles follows the highly successful kickoff of the voter registration program at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. Information on "Smackdown Your Vote!" Partners MTV has renewed its commitment to informing young people about the political process, the presidential election and registering them to vote with Choose or Lose 2000. In 1992, 1996 and 2000, Choose or Lose has strategically partnered with a diverse group of non-profit, government, corporate and online organizations, including Rock the Vote and the over 50 members of the Youth Vote 2000 Coalition (which includes such organizations as the League of Women Voters League of Women Voters, voluntary public service organization of U.S. citizens. Organized in 1920 in Chicago as an outgrowth of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it had as its original nucleus the leaders of the latter organization. , and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR) is an umbrella group of American liberal interest groups. Organizational history It was founded in 1950 by three leaders in the American civil rights movement: Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters founder A. ). By teaming up with the World Wrestling Federation, Choose or Lose will have an effective new partner to reach out and register the largest new generation of voters since the baby boom. Project Vote Smart provides factual information on more than 13,000 candidates running for president, Congress, governor, and state legislatures. Project Vote Smart was founded by former presidents Ford and Carter and other national leaders as a non-partisan research library. Access to the Project's data is available through the Vote Smart web site (www.vote-smart.org) and the toll-free Voter's Research Hotline (888-VOTE SMART), staffed by student interns and volunteers. Youth Vote 2000 (www.youthvote2000.org) is the largest, most diverse, non-partisan coalition in history to engage young people, ages 18-30, in politics. Youth Vote 2000 coalition consists of over 60 national organizations representing hundreds of groups and millions of young people. The Youth Vote 2000 coalition is calling for youth debates at the presidential, state and local levels. It is devoting an unprecedented amount of resources to building state and local youth vote 2000 coalitions. World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 119,261, making it the fourth largest city in the state. , with sales offices in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , Chicago, and Toronto. We are an integrated media and entertainment company, principally engaged in the development, production and marketing of television programming, pay-per-view programming and live events, and the licensing and sale of branded consumer products featuring our highly successful World Wrestling Federation (WWF) brand. The Company is an equal partner with NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. for the XFL XFL Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada - Shawinigan / via Rail Service (Airport Code) XFL X-Treme Football League XFL Exit Flight Level XFL X Football League , a new professional football league scheduled to kickoff in February 2001. WWFE currently has 300 full-time employees and has exclusive contracts with approximately 125 performers. The Company can be found on NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the symbol WWFE and online at WWF.com.
WWF Event Voter Registration Schedule
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8/7/00 RAW - Madison Square Garden, NY
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8/8/00 SMACKDOWN - Continental Airlines Arena, NJ
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8/14/00 RAW - Providence, RI
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8/15/00 SMACKDOWN - Worcester, MA
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8/21/00 RAW - Lafayette, LA
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8/22/00 SMACKDOWN - New Orleans, LA
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8/26/00 SUMMERSLAM - Durham, NC
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8/27/00 SUMMERSLAM - Raleigh, NC
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8/28/00 RAW - Greensboro, NC
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8/29/00 SMACKDOWN - Fayetteville, NC
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9/4/00 RAW - Lexington, KY
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9/5/00 SMACKDOWN - Louisville, KY
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9/11/00 RAW - Phoenix, AZ
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9/12/00 SMACKDOWN - Phoenix, AZ
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9/18/00 RAW - Chicago, IL
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9/19/00 SMACKDOWN - Milwaukee, WI
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9/24/00 UNFORGIVEN - Philadelphia, PA
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9/25/00 RAW - Penn State University, PA
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9/26/00 SMACKDOWN - Pittsburgh, PA
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10/2/00 RAW - Washington , DC
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