Oakland students engage peers to vote in school board elections

For the first time in state history, Oakland and Berkley students will head to the polls in November to cast ballots in their respective school board elections.

Students at Lattitude High School in Oakland have become educators, teaching peers about the importance of voting and how to pre-register for the upcoming school board elections.

"I know that people are literally engaged, so then they are like, I want to vote. They say, 'Oh really, 16 and 17-year-olds can now vote,' and I was like yeah, and literally half the class went all the way over there to pre-register," said Abrahr Ahmed, a Latitude Highschool senior teaching a special voting class.

The goal is to register 100 new youth voters for this year's elections. The only requirements are that they be 16 or 17 years old, Oakland residents, and U.S. citizens.




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