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"content": "\u003cp>When Maximus Simmons cast his ballot in November, he could only fill it out for one election — his Oakland school board representative — because he was among the first 16- and 17-year-olds \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012537/young-people-in-oakland-and-berkeley-are-casting-ballots-for-the-first-time-heres-what-it-looks-like\">allowed to vote in Oakland and Berkeley\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The East Bay cities allowed teens to vote in school board elections for the first time last year, following years of youth advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Filling out the ballot is easy once you get it, but actually making sure to go and turn in your ballot, even I struggled with that a little bit,” said Simmons, who also serves as student director on the Oakland school board. “It was a matter of making time to drop it off and also figuring out how to drop it off because a lot of kids are on their parents’ schedule.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons said the experience empowered him and his peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How was youth voter turnout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1,500 youth voters were registered by Election Day in Berkeley and Oakland, with about a third casting ballots. The numbers are low compared to turnout among adults who voted in the same school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities run their school board elections differently. In Oakland, residents select candidates based on the district they live in and only half of the districts are up for an election at any given time. In Berkeley’s at-large system, the candidates with the most votes overall are elected to available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth turnout in Oakland & Berkeley 2024 school board elections\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MJZF4\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MJZF4/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 600 young people exercised their right to vote in school board races. Those who did cast ballots had similar vote splits to the general population — except for one race in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District 5, which includes the diverse Fruitvale and Jingletown neighborhoods with a large Spanish-speaking population, saw different voting patterns. While adults elected Patrice Berry, youth voters preferred Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez. Both candidates advocated for diversity and equity efforts in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the results in District 5 weren’t close enough to be affected by the youth vote, it was by far the tightest race: Just 885 votes separated Berry from Ritzie-Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The historic youth vote was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">years in the making\u003c/a>. Berkeley passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921973/berkeley-and-oakland-passed-measures-to-let-16-and-17-year-olds-participate-in-school-board-elections-so-why-cant-they-vote-yet\">Measure Y1\u003c/a> in 2016, amending the city charter to allow teens to vote in school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, students formed the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition to attempt the same thing with help from the nonprofit Oakland Kids First, led by executive director Lukas Brekke-Miesner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, at Willard Park in Berkeley, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. He helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took another four years after Oakland’s 2020 measure for teens in both cities to vote, meaning most of the original student advocates had aged out of the youth voting category altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always hard to know if something’s high or low when it’s the first time,” Brekke-Miesner said. “Generally, our feeling is overwhelmingly positive in the sense that every young person who voted was a young person who has never been able to vote before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029001 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211-OUSDMergerVote-JY-033-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistical issues with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters delayed the implementation of youth voting, Brekke-Miesner said. He didn’t learn until August 2024 that the systems were ready for the upcoming election, a timeline that significantly impacted turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth voters also do not appear on voter rolls because they are minors, Brekke-Miesner said, which meant that there was no way to track registration or follow up with potential voters ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about our ability to register voters, mobilize voters, educate voters, et cetera, was all condensed to a September, October timeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work, he noted, was led by teens and teachers. At Oakland High School, Simmons said civics teachers would set aside class time to educate students about how to register and fill out a ballot, with a curriculum from the League of Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville — a critical step to foster civic engagement early.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029006\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029006 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00300-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Society is set up for young people to not care about voting,” said Simmons, a junior. “We don’t learn about it in school. We don’t learn about who our political party should be, what each political party means. We’re not taught why voting is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Oakland hosted candidate forums at several high schools, which they have done for the past few elections they couldn’t even vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Zamahra Winta Clark went from classroom to classroom with a curriculum developed by a school librarian to educate her peers about the registration process. Clark is also a student director on Berkeley’s school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If students were able to vote in the mayoral election, I feel like it would be a way higher percentage of voter turnout for students,” Clark, a senior, said. “The majority of them were confused on not only how the process works, but how this affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons added that the novelty of youth voting could play a role in limiting turnout since students aren’t familiar with the process yet. Simmons said he expects turnout to increase as it has in the few other cities in the U.S. that allow youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide momentum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Bay Area, cities on the East Coast states of Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey allow youth voting in local elections. More than a dozen states have active campaigns supported by Vote16USA, a national organization that provides resources to local youth vote advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in places where we’ve lowered the voting age, 16- and 17-year-olds are voting at a much higher rate than those that are 18 and older,” said LaJuan Allen, the director of Vote16USA. “And not only that, but the voting turnout for folks that are 18 and older continued to increase every election cycle that 16- and 17-year-olds were able to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first municipality to expand youth voting in 2013. Only 59 young people cast ballots, marking turnout at 44%. By 2020, turnout had risen to 69%, surpassing the general population rate of 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said he expects a similar pattern in the Bay Area, especially as more cities in the region expand the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Albany is next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest Bay Area city to expand youth voting rights is in neighboring Albany — and it goes a step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote16USA helped launch Albany’s youth voting ballot measure last year, which voters passed in November. The measure allows young people to cast ballots in school board races and municipal elections — the broadest expansion of youth voting rights on the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029005\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029005 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00185-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, left, of Oakland, is the executive director of Oakland Kids First, which helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. Maximus Simmons, of Oakland, is a student director at Oakland Unified and was a first-time youth voter in the 2024 election. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Alex Li, a freshman at Georgetown University, was a key organizer in the city’s campaign while attending Albany High School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is traditional, and I guess more politically intuitive, to go just for school board because there’s that direct connection,” Li said. “But at the same time, it’s not as if we’re not citizens of the city, and we’re not impacted by what happens in the policymaking through ballot measures or the city council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it’s unclear how quickly Albany can implement youth voting, Li said Berkeley and Oakland cut through much of the bureaucratic red tape at the registrar’s office. Brennen Brown, Albany’s public information officer, said the city is coordinating with the county to get that done before the next election.[aside postID=news_12012537 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241009-OAKLAND-YOUTH-VOTE-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']More Bay Area cities are expected to follow. Students at the Alameda Science and Technology Institute are putting together a campaign with the help of Vote16USA and the League of Women Voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all Bay Area cities are embracing a lower voting age. A San Francisco measure to allow 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in city elections was rejected by voters in 2016 and 2020 — both times, the margin of defeat was slim. Youth advocates began launching a third attempt in April, but nothing tangible came of that effort by the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some advocates believe national politics could also play a role in expanding a lowered voting age. President Donald Trump’s second term is motivating many teens who feel democracy itself is at risk, according to Allen. He also noted that youth frustration with national politics is pushing many to look toward their own communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people are very excited about what their impact could be on the local level as it relates to a more inclusive democracy,” Allen said. “But I think I would be remiss if I didn’t say that young people are disappointed and are thinking about what the next four years are going to look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only for them,” he added. “But for their communities and the people that they love and care about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How was youth voter turnout?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nearly 1,500 youth voters were registered by Election Day in Berkeley and Oakland, with about a third casting ballots. The numbers are low compared to turnout among adults who voted in the same school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cities run their school board elections differently. In Oakland, residents select candidates based on the district they live in and only half of the districts are up for an election at any given time. In Berkeley’s at-large system, the candidates with the most votes overall are elected to available seats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Youth turnout in Oakland & Berkeley 2024 school board elections\" aria-label=\"Donut Chart\" id=\"datawrapper-chart-MJZF4\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/MJZF4/7/\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border: none;\" width=\"800\" height=\"570\" data-external=\"1\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just under 600 young people exercised their right to vote in school board races. Those who did cast ballots had similar vote splits to the general population — except for one race in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Unified School District 5, which includes the diverse Fruitvale and Jingletown neighborhoods with a large Spanish-speaking population, saw different voting patterns. While adults elected Patrice Berry, youth voters preferred Sasha Ritzie-Hernandez. Both candidates advocated for diversity and equity efforts in the school district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the results in District 5 weren’t close enough to be affected by the youth vote, it was by far the tightest race: Just 885 votes separated Berry from Ritzie-Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Lessons from 2024\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The historic youth vote was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002068/in-oakland-and-berkeley-16-and-17-year-olds-can-now-vote-for-school-board\">years in the making\u003c/a>. Berkeley passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921973/berkeley-and-oakland-passed-measures-to-let-16-and-17-year-olds-participate-in-school-board-elections-so-why-cant-they-vote-yet\">Measure Y1\u003c/a> in 2016, amending the city charter to allow teens to vote in school board races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three years later, students formed the Oakland Youth Vote Coalition to attempt the same thing with help from the nonprofit Oakland Kids First, led by executive director Lukas Brekke-Miesner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250226_Youth-Vote_DMB_00048-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lukas Brekke-Miesner, executive director of Oakland Kids First, at Willard Park in Berkeley, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. He helped launch youth voting in Oakland back in 2019. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It took another four years after Oakland’s 2020 measure for teens in both cities to vote, meaning most of the original student advocates had aged out of the youth voting category altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always hard to know if something’s high or low when it’s the first time,” Brekke-Miesner said. “Generally, our feeling is overwhelmingly positive in the sense that every young person who voted was a young person who has never been able to vote before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Logistical issues with the Alameda County Registrar of Voters delayed the implementation of youth voting, Brekke-Miesner said. He didn’t learn until August 2024 that the systems were ready for the upcoming election, a timeline that significantly impacted turnout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Youth voters also do not appear on voter rolls because they are minors, Brekke-Miesner said, which meant that there was no way to track registration or follow up with potential voters ahead of the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything about our ability to register voters, mobilize voters, educate voters, et cetera, was all condensed to a September, October timeline,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the work, he noted, was led by teens and teachers. 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Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Society is set up for young people to not care about voting,” said Simmons, a junior. “We don’t learn about it in school. We don’t learn about who our political party should be, what each political party means. We’re not taught why voting is important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students in Oakland hosted candidate forums at several high schools, which they have done for the past few elections they couldn’t even vote in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Berkeley High School, Zamahra Winta Clark went from classroom to classroom with a curriculum developed by a school librarian to educate her peers about the registration process. Clark is also a student director on Berkeley’s school board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If students were able to vote in the mayoral election, I feel like it would be a way higher percentage of voter turnout for students,” Clark, a senior, said. “The majority of them were confused on not only how the process works, but how this affects them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simmons added that the novelty of youth voting could play a role in limiting turnout since students aren’t familiar with the process yet. Simmons said he expects turnout to increase as it has in the few other cities in the U.S. that allow youth voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Nationwide momentum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Outside of the Bay Area, cities on the East Coast states of Vermont, Maryland and New Jersey allow youth voting in local elections. More than a dozen states have active campaigns supported by Vote16USA, a national organization that provides resources to local youth vote advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We see in places where we’ve lowered the voting age, 16- and 17-year-olds are voting at a much higher rate than those that are 18 and older,” said LaJuan Allen, the director of Vote16USA. “And not only that, but the voting turnout for folks that are 18 and older continued to increase every election cycle that 16- and 17-year-olds were able to vote.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Takoma Park, Maryland, was the first municipality to expand youth voting in 2013. Only 59 young people cast ballots, marking turnout at 44%. By 2020, turnout had risen to 69%, surpassing the general population rate of 54%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Allen said he expects a similar pattern in the Bay Area, especially as more cities in the region expand the right to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Albany is next\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The latest Bay Area city to expand youth voting rights is in neighboring Albany — and it goes a step further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vote16USA helped launch Albany’s youth voting ballot measure last year, which voters passed in November. 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"content": "\u003cp>After a years-long fight, 16 and 17-year-olds in Berkeley and Oakland will be able to vote in school board \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/alameda/school\">elections\u003c/a> this fall, the first two districts in the state to give young people a say in who governs their public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announced technology for printing and counting youth ballots is ready for the November election. Berkeley passed Measure Y1, giving young people the right to vote in school board elections in 2016. Oakland followed suit with Measure QQ four years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ixchel Arista, an Oakland High School graduate, joined the campaign for the Oakland measure as a high school freshman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are the main constituents and recipients of the decisions made at the school board level, and it only makes sense in my mind that 16-17 year-olds are able to decide who they feel is going to best represent their interests,” Arista says, adding that the challenge now is making sure young people have the information they need to cast their vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there is a lot to learn. Chances are, if you are 16 or 17, you have never voted in an election before. If that’s the case, don’t worry; this is new to everyone. Even the county registrar has had a hard time figuring it out and spent months designing and building a new voting system for young people. Below, you’ll find information about how to register, how to learn about candidates, and where to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Did we miss something? If you have other questions about how to vote, please send us your questions by \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe2Acbz9vp9kYjW_zXntoPd3AGmn4q3A57lVKLQ-oInhMdzXg/viewform\">filling out this form\u003c/a>. If you’d like to email me directly, \u003ca href=\"mailto:afinney@kqed.org\">click here.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000542\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/Photo3_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This November, 16- and 17-year-olds in Oakland will have four school board seats to consider on the ballot, while those in Berkeley will have two. \u003ccite>(Aaron Mendelson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How do I register to vote?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To cast a ballot, people who are 16 or 17 need to register with the Secretary of State using a process called “pre-registration.” You can pre-register \u003ca href=\"https://registertovote.ca.gov/\">online\u003c/a> or in person at the Alameda County Registrar’s office in the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse near Lake Merritt in Oakland at 1225 Fallon St., room G1. Paper forms are also available at some public libraries and DMV locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you register online, make sure you select the “pre-register” option on the Secretary of State’s website. If you are using a paper form, check the box at the top of the page that says you are 16 or 17.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pre-register to vote in Berkeley or Oakland school board elections, you’ll need to meet all of the state’s regular voting requirements, other than being 18, and be a Berkeley or Oakland resident.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The online application will ask you for the following information, so it’s good to have it ready when you go online to fill out the form:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Your home address\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The last four digits of your social security number or a state driver’s license or ID card number. If you don’t have a state ID, the registrar will need a copy of your signature to have on file. The registrar will compare that signature with the signature on your ballot to make sure it came from you. If you register on paper, the registrar will ask you to sign a legal document called an affidavit. If you register online, you will have to print a form, sign it and mail it to the registrar’s office.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>After you register, you can check to make sure it was received using the Secretary of State’s \u003ca href=\"https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/\">registration voter status page\u003c/a>. The Alameda County Registrar is encouraging young people to register before Oct. 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I learn about what I’ll be voting on?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eligible voters who are 16 and 17 are only allowed to vote in their school board elections. In Oakland, there are four school board seats on the ballot in November, two in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, only eligible youth voters living in school board Districts 1, 3, 5 and 7 will vote this year. In 2026, Districts 2, 4 and 6, will be up for election. You can look up which Oakland school board district you live in using this \u003ca href=\"https://gisapps1.mapoakland.com/ousd/\">Oakland Unified School District District map\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">[aside postID=news_12000525 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/016_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Berkeley, school board members serve the entire city, so all eligible youth voters will be able to vote regardless of where they live in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>School boards are a group of people elected to make decisions about how local public schools operate. 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Leading up to elections, people interested in becoming school board members file official paperwork, start raising money, make campaign websites, print advertisements like lawn signs (if you keep an eye out, you’ll probably see some around your city) and host campaign events.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To find out what candidates support, you can search online for their campaign websites, go to local campaign events or candidate forums, read local reporting about how candidates have voted in the past and research candidates in voter information guides. 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"title": "Berkeley and Oakland Passed Measures to Let 16- and 17-Year-Olds Participate in School Board Elections. So Why Can't They Vote Yet?",
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"content": "\u003cp>Three years ago, Melissa Rodriguez and dozens of her peers in Oakland Unified had a bold idea. Unhappy with the civics education at their schools, among other issues, they decided to enact their own real-life civics lesson: by fighting for 16- and 17-year-olds to have the right to vote in school board elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They circulated petitions. They went door to door in every neighborhood of the city. They collected endorsements and raised money for advertising. They did email blasts, social media campaigns and phone banking. And in the fall 2020 election, they won. \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Oakland,_California,_Measure_QQ,_Allow_16-Year-Olds_to_Vote_for_School_Board_Director_Charter_Amendment_(November_2020)\">Measure QQ\u003c/a> passed with almost 68% of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"mindshift_56725,arts_13889129\"]But that, so far, is where the story ends. The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has yet to implement Measure QQ, as well as \u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/Berkeley,_California,_School_Director_Election_Youth_Voting,_Measure_Y1_(November_2016)\">a similar measure, Y1\u003c/a>, that passed in Berkeley in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s so disappointing. As much as we tried to hold adults accountable, it didn’t happen. Even when they promised it would,” Rodriguez said. “And it’s not even our fault. No matter how much work we put into something, it doesn’t change anything. It makes me really mad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation in Oakland and Berkeley isn’t unique. Youth-led civic engagement initiatives typically struggle to maintain momentum, said Chuck Corra, associate director at Generation Citizen, which advocates for youth civics education. Students graduate and move on, priorities change, and — as any policy wonk will attest — the wheels of democracy can grind maddeningly slowly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It can be frustrating. Sometimes municipalities drag their feet,” Corra said. “There’s all this grassroots activism and then nothing happens. … Young people are tired of seeing a lot of talk on issues that affect them. They want a seat at the table.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of youth voting initiatives in Berkeley and Oakland, the measures have stalled at the registrar’s office, where staff have hired a consultant and an attorney to work out the complexities of issuing ballots, in multiple languages, to a select group of voters for only one race: school board. The ballots and voting methods also must be accessible to people with disabilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal is to integrate the voting rolls, so students who vote in school board races and \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/pre-register-16-vote-18\">those who’ve preregistered\u003c/a>, which became legal in California in 2017, can seamlessly join the regular rolls once they turn 18, according to Cynthia Cornejo, deputy registrar in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In a perfect world, this would be easy to implement. But we want to make sure we do it right,” Cornejo said. “I completely understand how frustrated people are. We all hoped this would be done sooner. … We’ve done a lot of work on this already, and it’s going well. We’re very close.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Zo Pancoast, student activist\"]'People have this anger ... but there's also hope. It feels like there's a renewed momentum.'[/pullquote]California election law is unclear as to how long an agency can wait before implementing a voter-approved measure. But some delays related to Measures QQ and Y1 might be unique to Alameda County. Youth voting measures in Maryland and other states have passed and been implemented with little trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zo Pancoast, who was among the Berkeley students who pushed for Y1 six years ago, said the delay is disappointing, but it hasn’t deterred her and her peers from fighting for change. Now a student at Scripps College in Claremont, she’s remained active with \u003ca href=\"https://generationcitizen.org/policy-and-advocacy/vote16usa/\">Vote16USA\u003c/a>, a movement to lower the voting age, and is busy working on other political issues. 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And I saw the opportunity and I thought I should help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why did you decide to help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom also helped a lot with the elections, but due to COVID, she wasn’t able to. So I had the opportunity, so I did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Were you nervous?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My mom went over it with me, so I was pretty comfortable and knew what I was supposed to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why do you think more youth are voting in this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot of people didn’t vote last election. And I think now they know that it is very important to vote. So they’re just taking the opportunity now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What issues are most important to you this election?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Lives Matter movement is very important, especially in this community, where we’re at. 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You know, I can’t really do much about everything that’s happening right now. And I know that a lot of people, they don’t vote because the lines are too long. And I was like, they need younger people so it works faster, you know? So I thought that was important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What sort of social justice issues are important to you? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arise is very social justice driven. I was also part of the \u003ca href=\"https://radicalmonarchs.org\">Radical Monarchs \u003c/a>[a project aimed at empowering young girls of color]. I was in the first group. So yeah, that’s like something really big that changed my mindset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is your family political?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Me and my mom were very political and we’re very all about social justice and all that. My family is a little bit more different. Like, they have different opinions, their own political opinions. I mean, my mom may not agree, but like I mean, we’re family, so yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you think is motivating young people like yourself to step forward in new ways?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s just history repeating itself. I think youth are like, wow, this is really happening again? You know, we’re the future. We can do something about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think it’s really important for you to vote right now because it could just make a really big impact. And even if you’re not doing it for yourself, this is affecting a lot of lives. And I just think it’s really important. That’s why I like working here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>With your long work hours here you are missing school, right?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m going to miss Monday and Tuesday. But I emailed my teachers. 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We actually did go through a scenario where we had to close our eyes and the employee actually unplugged different things and had us come back and we had to figure out what had happened. And so that was a scenario that we worked through. Of course, the other thing right now is about people not complying with the mask requirement. We actually do have to let people in to vote even if they are not wearing a mask.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if there’s a problem?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So they definitely aren’t just sending us out there and saying you guys can deal with it. There’s going to be a help desk set up in Alameda County where we can call them on Election Day and get better instructions. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>California may soon join a growing number of other states in allowing some 17-year-olds to vote in primary and special elections under a \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ACA4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">proposed amendment\u003c/a> to the state constitution approved Thursday by the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If two-thirds of state senators agree, the measure would go before voters in California’s March primary election, but would not affect next year’s elections. It would apply to 17-year-old U.S. citizens living in California who would turn 18 before the following general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure passed, 57-13, over objections from Republican Assemblyman James Gallagher of Nicolaus, who argued it was a ploy to lure more Democratic-leaning young voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is being veiled as something that helps expand the franchise,” but “has mostly a more political ulterior motive in the long term,” Gallagher said. “That’s what is really going on here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assemblyman Kevin Mullin of San Francisco, who introduced the amendment, said the practice has been adopted in other states that lean Republican, and that the goal of his measure is to “empower California’s youngest voters” and encourage a habit of life-long voting and civic engagement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The time has come for California to join in pursuing what so many other states have done,” Mullin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least 17 states, including Connecticut, Nebraska, Mississippi and New Mexico, as well as the District of Columbia, allow 17-year-olds to vote in presidential primaries and state elections, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primaries-voting-age.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Conference of State Legislatures\u003c/a>. Some states that use caucuses also allow 17-year-olds to participate, though the rules are generally set by each political party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not driven by a Democratic idea in California,” said Democratic Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, listing some of the more conservative states. “To suggest that there’s some political play going on I think is disingenuous. … It’s good for the process, it’s good for them, and it’s our way to develop lifelong voters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California is among 14 states that allow 16-year-olds to pre-register to vote, but they can’t currently vote until they turn 18.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley voters in 2016 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11155367/san-francisco-and-berkeley-could-lower-the-voting-age\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">allowed 16- and 17-year-olds to vote\u003c/a> in local school board elections, but a similar measure failed in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/UcgvOjJSzWE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/UcgvOjJSzWE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>In 1971, the federal voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 with the ratification of the \u003ca href=\"https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xxvi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">26th Amendment\u003c/a>. At the time, tens of thousands of young men, 18 and older, were still being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, and voting activists successfully campaigned on the premise that anyone considered old enough to fight and die for his country should also be considered old enough to vote. Since then, no state has permitted anyone younger than 18 to vote in federal general elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed measure in California is supported by groups that include the League of Women Voters of California. It’s opposed by the Election Integrity Project California Inc., which noted that 17-year-olds are still considered children who mostly attend high school and who may be easily influenced by their parents and teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure is separate from \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200ACA8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another proposed amendment\u003c/a> to the California constitution that would lower the voting age from 18 to 17, even in general elections. That measure, introduced by Assemblyman Evan Low, D-San Jose is awaiting an Assembly vote.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/05/voting_in_america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Less than half\u003c/a> of 18 to 29-year-olds went to the polls last presidential election. But this isn’t a typical year. This year a school shooting sparked a political awakening for youth around the country, and Bay Area students have tried to translate that energy to the voting booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week before the election, a group of high school students came together on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Lick-Wilmerding High School student Harry yelled out to the crowd, “Everyone excited to vote today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Bay Area students have been working for months to register voters and pre-register those who are not yet old enough to vote. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He helped organize the event, hoping to turn voting into a group event that would get other young people excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people know what is at stake here,” he told the crowd. “We know that at the local level, at the state level and at the national level there are issues that we can make a difference on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the rally the group went into the voting center to cast their ballots early. Harry and his classmates spent the last few months doing voter registration drives to get young people to the poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs outside the Berkeley High School auditorium \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Usually what I say is ‘Do you really want your grandparents choosing who your representatives are,’” Harry said. “Because we as young people have the biggest investment in the future of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout is historically lowest among young voters compared to other age groups, but a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewa.org/webinar/survey-teen-voters-whats-their-minds-election-nears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new national survey\u003c/a> from the Education Writers Association found young voters are unusually engaged this year: 63 percent of 18 and 19-year-olds said they plan to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harry is voting for the first time this year and he’s all in. He even signed up to work the polls. “I’m so excited,” he said. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found young people who plan to vote are more likely to identify as liberal, and one of the top reasons they gave for casting their ballots this year is to weigh-in on the direction of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest \u003ca href=\"http://iop.harvard.edu/spring-2018-national-youth-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard Institute of Politics Youth Poll\u003c/a> of 18 to 29-year-olds found heightened interest among young Democrats, with young Republicans becoming more engaged in the weeks leading up to the election. Looking ahead to 2020, it found 59 percent of young voters say they will never vote to reelect President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students arriving at the voter forum put on by Bay Area Student Activists a few weeks before the election. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school shooting in Parkland Florida is still helping to energize students around the election, including Harry’s classmate Liv Jenks. “You’ve seen a lot of students claiming their political power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty percent of young people surveyed said their political engagement had increased over the past two years. “It’s been really empowering for me to hear my fellow students getting politically engaged and being the ones that are educating me,” Jenks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parkland shooting was the top reason they gave for becoming active, and school shootings were the biggest concern youth voters listed, followed by gun control and racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really scared at school and so I had all these emotions and I didn’t know how to deal with them,” Berkeley High School student Kira Galbraith said of the weeks after the Florida shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she turned to political organizing as a way to cope with those emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbraith and other students have been working together across the Bay Area this year. They held school walkouts to demand stricter gun laws and planned a lobbying trip to Sacramento. Most of them can’t vote yet, but that hasn’t stopped them from finding ways to participate in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1200x779.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1920x1247.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-960x623.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-375x243.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-520x338.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students collected questions for candidates at the Bay Area Student Activists voter forum. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The frustration that I feel that I can’t really have my voice heard in the government right now, that drives me more to get other people as a way to have my voice heard,” said French American International High School senior Zoe Benjamin, who helped found the group Bay Area Student Activists to advocate for gun reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has grown to include students from more than 30 schools in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month they put on a voter forum at Berkeley High School with candidates for local and state offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Berkeley High School auditorium before the voter forum. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>High schoolers Alden O’Rafferty and Kate Sippey, both 17, are pre-registered to vote. They showed up at the forum to press the candidates for specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of big, grand change the world statements, like buzzwords,” Sippey said, “but not actually like this is what I’m endorsing to do this, and this is how we’re going to fix the housing crisis and stuff like that.” O’Rafferty nodded along. “I just want to know how,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/report-registration/15-day-gen-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> latest report\u003c/a> from the California Secretary of State’s office shows more than 260,000 16 and 17-year-olds have pre-registered to vote since September 2016. At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2018-news-releases-and-advisories/secretary-padilla-announces-200000-california-16-and-17-year-olds-have-pre-registered-vote/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100,000 of them\u003c/a> have turned 18 and are eligible to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of September, close to 10,000 young people had pre-registered in Alameda County, nearly 3,000 in San Francisco County and over 6,000 in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their recent voter forum, Zoe and the other organizers hoped to help people headed to the ballot box make informed decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly District 15 candidate Buffy Wicks and a representative from Jovanka Beckles campaign speaking at the forum. But only a few dozen voters showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to my friends and stuff, some of them are like I don’t really want to vote because it feels like a lot of work,” Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things easier for them she put together a crash course on everything there is to vote on in San Francisco County. She presented it to all the 18-year-olds at her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The energy these Bay Area students have put into the election remains atypical. The student survey found nationwide almost half of young people couldn’t name a single candidate running for office.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.census.gov/newsroom/blogs/random-samplings/2017/05/voting_in_america.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Less than half\u003c/a> of 18 to 29-year-olds went to the polls last presidential election. But this isn’t a typical year. This year a school shooting sparked a political awakening for youth around the country, and Bay Area students have tried to translate that energy to the voting booth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week before the election, a group of high school students came together on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. Lick-Wilmerding High School student Harry yelled out to the crowd, “Everyone excited to vote today?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702661\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-4-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some Bay Area students have been working for months to register voters and pre-register those who are not yet old enough to vote. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He helped organize the event, hoping to turn voting into a group event that would get other young people excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Young people know what is at stake here,” he told the crowd. “We know that at the local level, at the state level and at the national level there are issues that we can make a difference on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the rally the group went into the voting center to cast their ballots early. Harry and his classmates spent the last few months doing voter registration drives to get young people to the poles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702665\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702665\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-8-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Signs outside the Berkeley High School auditorium \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Usually what I say is ‘Do you really want your grandparents choosing who your representatives are,’” Harry said. “Because we as young people have the biggest investment in the future of our country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turnout is historically lowest among young voters compared to other age groups, but a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewa.org/webinar/survey-teen-voters-whats-their-minds-election-nears\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new national survey\u003c/a> from the Education Writers Association found young voters are unusually engaged this year: 63 percent of 18 and 19-year-olds said they plan to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harry is voting for the first time this year and he’s all in. He even signed up to work the polls. “I’m so excited,” he said. “I’ve been waiting for this moment for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The survey found young people who plan to vote are more likely to identify as liberal, and one of the top reasons they gave for casting their ballots this year is to weigh-in on the direction of the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest \u003ca href=\"http://iop.harvard.edu/spring-2018-national-youth-poll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harvard Institute of Politics Youth Poll\u003c/a> of 18 to 29-year-olds found heightened interest among young Democrats, with young Republicans becoming more engaged in the weeks leading up to the election. Looking ahead to 2020, it found 59 percent of young voters say they will never vote to reelect President Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-9-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students arriving at the voter forum put on by Bay Area Student Activists a few weeks before the election. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The school shooting in Parkland Florida is still helping to energize students around the election, including Harry’s classmate Liv Jenks. “You’ve seen a lot of students claiming their political power,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forty percent of young people surveyed said their political engagement had increased over the past two years. “It’s been really empowering for me to hear my fellow students getting politically engaged and being the ones that are educating me,” Jenks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Parkland shooting was the top reason they gave for becoming active, and school shootings were the biggest concern youth voters listed, followed by gun control and racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really scared at school and so I had all these emotions and I didn’t know how to deal with them,” Berkeley High School student Kira Galbraith said of the weeks after the Florida shooting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she turned to political organizing as a way to cope with those emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Galbraith and other students have been working together across the Bay Area this year. They held school walkouts to demand stricter gun laws and planned a lobbying trip to Sacramento. Most of them can’t vote yet, but that hasn’t stopped them from finding ways to participate in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-800x519.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-800x519.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1020x662.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1200x779.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1920x1247.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-1180x766.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-960x623.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-240x156.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-375x243.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-6-520x338.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students collected questions for candidates at the Bay Area Student Activists voter forum. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The frustration that I feel that I can’t really have my voice heard in the government right now, that drives me more to get other people as a way to have my voice heard,” said French American International High School senior Zoe Benjamin, who helped found the group Bay Area Student Activists to advocate for gun reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has grown to include students from more than 30 schools in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month they put on a voter forum at Berkeley High School with candidates for local and state offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11702664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-7-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Berkeley High School auditorium before the voter forum. \u003ccite>(Vanessa Rancaño/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>High schoolers Alden O’Rafferty and Kate Sippey, both 17, are pre-registered to vote. They showed up at the forum to press the candidates for specifics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a lot of big, grand change the world statements, like buzzwords,” Sippey said, “but not actually like this is what I’m endorsing to do this, and this is how we’re going to fix the housing crisis and stuff like that.” O’Rafferty nodded along. “I just want to know how,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/report-registration/15-day-gen-2018/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> latest report\u003c/a> from the California Secretary of State’s office shows more than 260,000 16 and 17-year-olds have pre-registered to vote since September 2016. At least \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/administration/news-releases-and-advisories/2018-news-releases-and-advisories/secretary-padilla-announces-200000-california-16-and-17-year-olds-have-pre-registered-vote/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100,000 of them\u003c/a> have turned 18 and are eligible to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of September, close to 10,000 young people had pre-registered in Alameda County, nearly 3,000 in San Francisco County and over 6,000 in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With their recent voter forum, Zoe and the other organizers hoped to help people headed to the ballot box make informed decisions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11702660\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-960x720.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-240x180.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-375x281.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/BAStA-Voter-Forum-3-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assembly District 15 candidate Buffy Wicks and a representative from Jovanka Beckles campaign speaking at the forum. But only a few dozen voters showed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I talk to my friends and stuff, some of them are like I don’t really want to vote because it feels like a lot of work,” Benjamin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To make things easier for them she put together a crash course on everything there is to vote on in San Francisco County. She presented it to all the 18-year-olds at her school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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