Student votes matter in every election
Forty years ago, when I was a student at Cal State Long Beach, I was the coordinator on campus for voter registration on behalf of the Associated Students Inc. and the college.
Back in the day, we were able to register thousands of students who just became eligible to vote when the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, thanks to passage of the 26th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution written by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts.
Forty years later, students continue to play a major significant role in local, state and national politics and policy as long as they are engaged, as long as they register and as long as they vote.
2012 couldn’t be more important, and voters will decide not just who wins but the direction of the country. This is not new. In a democracy, that is how it works.
It’s not the polls and pollsters who determine the outcome of the election. It’s not the talking heads on television or the hack experts and their predictions.
It’s the voter who decides.
So register to vote, and vote on Nov. 6.
Your vote is the one that counts!
Chuck Levin is a CSULB alumnus of 1972 and a former Daily 49er staffer.
