By #GoVote is the Associated Students, Inc.’s message to encourage students to vote. However, Cal State University Long Beach will not have on-campus voting available for students for the Nov. 4 general election.
“It’s up to the state to reserve the room for voting,” Laura Butt, the Associated Students Inc. Secretary, said. “They didn’t choose to have it on the CSULB campus this year.”
In past years, CSULB has been chosen to hold a room in the University Student Union available for students to vote. The room had provisional voting available for students registered in other counties.
“I’m registered in another district and couldn’t get to my provisional ballot back at home,” Earvin Tucay, a sophomore design major, said. “I was looking forward to be able to make up my vote on campus, now I don’t know what to do.”
Polling places are chosen by the county clerk’s office in Los Angeles. The possible polling places must be accessible to voters with disabilities, must have adequate parking and be open from 6:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., according to longbeach.gov.
When asked about what efforts the ASI had taken to try and get the voting back on campus, the ASI declined to comment.
ASI subcommittee, Lobby Corps held multiple drives throughout the fall semester to register students to vote as well as an “Advocacy Day” event to “drive voter morale,” according to the Lobby Corps Facebook page.
“I was disappointed to know I wouldn’t be able to vote on campus because I have classes all day on Election Day,” Eli Jenson, a sophomore kinesiology student said. “I heard that the school used to offer it in the years past.”
The polling place that is nearest CSULB is Ecco’s Pizza, which is located at 2123 N. Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90815.
Any students that are registered outside of the county can still vote with a provisional ballot at any polling place.
