Pre-registering allows future voters younger than 18 to file registration paperwork before they’re even eligible to cast a ballot! TheFutureIsMs is an ongoing series of reports by young feminists, made possible by a grant from SayItForwardNow:
Dozens of high school students huddled around a row of computer screens, their fingers flying across the keyboards as they typed in their birthdays, zip codes and preferred political parties on voter registration forms. Andrea Yagher, 16, stood among the crowd, smiling widely as she gazed out at faces both familiar and unknown., which registers and pre-registers students to vote and educates them on current political issues.
“I just felt helpless during the election season,” she explained. “I knew I didn’t have any control over voting itself, because I am a kid and I can’t vote, but it was really annoying to see that there was all this awful stuff happening and that so many people who could vote were not voting.” “People have started to realize that we needed to shift our paradigm in thinking about young people,” said Abby Kiesa, the director of impact at the Tufts University-based Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement which sponsors 22×20, “from assuming that they know what people who have been voting for 30 years know to making sure that we are asking all young people to cast ballots and participate in democracy.
“We are all working as a team to inspire each other,” Yagher said. “Sometimes it’s just not as motivating for kids to listen to a bunch of adults.”
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