.KeaganRoberts just won his first election—and he’s 19-years-old: “I wanted to represent my generation because we are the future”
When 19-year-old Keagan Roberts woke up on Tuesday , he wanted to go straight to the polls — after all, it was Election Day. But because his car wasn’t working, he had to drop it off at the mechanic, go back home, and drive his mom’s car to the town hall. When he finally got there, polls had been open for 15 minutes and it was starting to rain.
Roberts was running for a seat on his city council, but he wasn’t on the ballot — he hadn’t actually decided that he wanted the role until after the deadline to be on the ticket had already passed. But rather than wait for the next election, he aimed for a more grassroots approach: The famed write-in candidacy. Voters would have to manually print his name on their ballots in order for him to garner any votes, so name recognition was key.
As for missing the deadline, he chalks that up to weighing his options. “I was a write-in because being 19, I have a bunch of different paths ahead of me that I could go on, and I wanted to be sure that I was choosing the right one. And once I thought about it, I realized, ‘Yep. This is what I'm supposed to be doing. This is my calling,’” Roberts told MTV News.
That mantra stayed in his mind on election night. At 9 p.m., about an hour after the polls closed, he and other candidates learned who took home enough votes to land a space on the council. The town clerk announced that incumbent John Kareckas earned the top amount of votes, and would serve as the council’s chair. Roberts earned 20.5 percent of the vote, enough to secure his victory as South Berwick’s newest council member.As a council member, his goals are, simply put, to learn.
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