Latinx nonprofit registers college, high school students to vote in special election

FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – Non-profit Poder Latinx visited Fresno City College, Fresno State, Edison High, and Pixley Adult School connected Tuesday to register students to vote.

Here successful the Valley, the enactment has visited campuses for the past 3 years connected National Voter Registration Day to promote the Latino assemblage to marque their voices heard. Their extremity this twelvemonth was to registry 500 voters.

"It's super important to the Latino ballot retired determination due to the fact that we cognize that arsenic overmuch arsenic we privation things to change, without you registering, without you really voting, things could enactment the same," said Norberto Gonzalez, California authorities programme manager for Poder Latinx. 

Gonzalez and his squad could beryllium recovered astatine Fresno City connected Thursday. Families, kids, and assemblage students each gathered astatine the quad to enactment successful Mexican Independence Day festivities. "As a existent Mexican myself, I'm blessed to spot that, you know, it's being celebrated present astatine Fresno City College," Gonzalez shared.

With the field other lively, his squad walked around, registering students for this upcoming peculiar election. "It was beauteous easy, ballot guys vote," said 1 assemblage student.

On Nov. 4, California voters volition find Proposition 50 connected their ballots. The passage means caller legislature territory maps, which could assistance Democrats summation up to 5 other legislature seats.

This determination counters the actions of Texas lawmakers who redrew their maps to favour Republicans. "To person this peculiar election, which has kept registration involvement up and a voting involvement up, that's really meant that we haven't seen a alteration successful registration, which is usually what we see," explained James Kus, Fresno County's predetermination clerk and registrar of voters.

Kus reminds that if you've conscionable turned 18, moved, oregon changed your signature and privation to ballot this November, you'll request to registry successful your county. "So registration is disposable either done a insubstantial signifier that you tin get astatine a station bureau oregon my office, oregon you tin adjacent telephone up and we'll message 1 retired to you," helium added.

You tin registry to ballot online at SOS.CA.GOV oregon usage the website to cheque that you are registered.