From the classroom to the polls: The importance of student voting paid civicnation
, which means that youth voices like mine are not being counted either.
. As I showed him how to register, Mohammed told me he was a Sudanese refugee, a survivor of years of violence and authoritarianism who had never experienced a legitimate election. Mohammed had become a U.S. citizen the previous summer, which made him eligible to vote for the first time in the November 2018 midterms. Enrolled in the international studies program, Mohammed was learning to formulate his own beliefs and act on them.
If we’re going to fix underrepresentation in our elections by November 2020, let’s start by doing a few things on the local level to make voting easier:
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