FRAMINGHAM -- Before the deadline to register to vote in the Massachusetts primary passed yesterday, the League of Women Voters hit the Framingham State College campus to reach out to the group least likely to vote -- 18- to 24-year-olds.

During the visit, the League unveiled a new Web site aimed at college students and others looking for information about how to register or about candidates.

 In the 2000 presidential election, 1.5 million registered voters in Massachusetts didn't cast a ballot, said Madhu Sridhar, president of the League of Women Voters of Massachusetts. Only one in three people between the ages of 18 and 24 voted.

"We want to get 18- to 24-year-olds to participate this year," Sridhar said. "Because students are tech savvy, we thought the best way (to reach them) was through the Internet."

The Web site -- www.votinginfo.info -- includes information about how to register to vote, how to get an absentee ballot and information about candidates and ballot measures. One unique thing about the site, Sridhar said, is its local focus.

"It is Massachusetts specific, accurate, strictly and unequivocally non-partisan and comprehensive," Sridhar said. "It is a one-stop site for Massachusetts voters."

Judith Gill, chancellor of the Board of Higher Education, lent support to the registration drive. She recalled her own college days at UMass Amherst in the 1960s when she pushed for the voting age to be lowered to 18.

"My feeling was if my classmates could go to Vietnam at age 18 they should be able to vote," Gill said. "I was one of the first to register to vote."

Noting that the students who showed up yesterday are already active in voting, Gill encouraged them to spread the word.

The registration drive at FSC is being led by members of the Student Government Association. The problem isn't registering students, said junior Tiffany Panagiotes, who serves as treasurer, the difficulty is getting them to go to the polls.

"A lot of them are registered," Panagiotes said. "As far as voting, I don't know if a lot of them are going home to vote."

Students have options if they want to cast their ballot, said sophomore Will Reddy, vice president of Student Government. Many students, though, don't realize they can change their voting address to the college or vote by absentee ballot.

"Most people who are registered don't have enough information about absentee voting," Reddy said.

Junior Stephanie Flynn, student trustee on the FSC Board of Trustees, hopes the presidential election in November will get those who haven't voted to go to the polls.

"Last (presidential) election most students weren't 18 when it happened so this is their first one," Flynn said.