(STAMFORD CONN. — September 21 2000) — The "SmackDown Your Vote" campaign comes to Pennsylvania on Sunday.

"SmackDown Your Vote! " is a non-partisan voter registration initiative being undertaken by WWE Entertainment Inc. (NMS: WWE) MTV’s Choose or Lose Youth Vote 2000 Project Vote Smart and the National Association of Secretaries of State. To date the program has registered more than 91 000 new voters in less than two months.

Youth Vote 2000 volunteers will be registering new voters at the UNFORGIVEN Pay-Per-View at the First Union Center in Philadelphia at RAW IS WAR at Bryce Jordan Center at Penn State University (the programs debut on TNN) and at WWE SMACKDOWN! at the Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh.

The volunteers also will be collecting signatures on the "SmackDown Challenge" petition. The petition calls for the Presidential candidates to make their own townhall debate on October 17 in St. Louis to be a "youth" debate with youth as a majority of the audience asking the questions. The petition also calls on George W. Bush the Republican Party nominee for President of the United States and Al Gore the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States to appear together on WWE SmackDown! to speak to the young voters of America.

"Smackdown Your Vote!" has been registering and bringing election information to thousands of previously unregistered voters during WWE arena events at WWE New York a site-based entertainment complex in New York City’s Times Square and through the company’s Web site wwevote.com as well as through MTV’s chooseorlose.com. On-line registration for the program is being provided through links to Rock the Vote.

Information on "Smackdown Your Vote!" Partners

The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) founded in 1904 is the nation’s oldest non-partisan government association representing the 50 states the District of Columbia Puerto Rico and the territories of American Samoa Guam and the Virgin Islands. For more information contact Kay Albowicz Communications Director or visit www.stateofthevote.org. New Millennium is a national youth voter campaign launched by the NASS designed to encourage political and civic participation in people ages 18-24. New Millennium aims to improve voter turnout by providing America’s young people with the information and skills that they need to become motivated educated and informed citizens. The goals of New Millennium are to provide strategies and messages for getting young people engaged in political and civic participation; to promote civics education in schools; and to raise public awareness about the importance of youth involvement in government.

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 strategically partnered with a diverse group of non-profit government corporate and online organizations including Rock the Vote and the over 60 members of the Youth Vote 2000 Coalition. By teaming up with the WWE 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.

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