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NYC schools push to get 20,000 teen students to register to vote in 2016
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | March 15, 2016 | Ben Chapman

Posted on 03/15/2016 11:38:08 AM PDT by EinNYC

City schools are getting out the vote this year.

Volunteer registration workers are targeting more than 20,000 teen students at 60 public schools across the city Friday in a push to sign up new voters.

Organizers at the NYC Campaign Finance Board say this year’s second annual Student Voter Registration Day is more than twice the size of last year's drive, when 2,000 public school students from 25 schools registered to vote.

“New Yorkers will be making crucial choices in the 2016 elections,” said NYCCFB director of voter assistance Onida Coward Mayers at a press conference on the steps of City Hall Tuesday.

“It is imperative that we hear the voices of our youngest voters,” she said.

Schools across the city will be setting aside time Friday to educate high school seniors on the voting process and sign eligible students up to vote.

Any U.S. citizen who is 18 or will turn 18 by Dec. 31 can register to vote this year. Voters must be 18 by Nov. 8 to cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential elections, however.

At Tuesday’s press conference, city schools boss Carmen Fariña called Student Voter Registration Day a boon to democracy.

“Our democracy can only exist when we have informed and active citizens — and that is why we want our students to understand how important voting is,” Fariña said.

NYC Campaign Finance Board officials said that just 11% of registered voters aged 18-29 cast ballots in the city’s 2013 mayoral elections, compared to 25% of all registered voters.


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I am horrified to hear this. Now the students of NYC high schools are being used as a captive audience to be groomed to vote for libtard candidates. They can be indoctrinated at will to whatever the city administration wants and then aimed at citizens like deadly rockets to set libtard candidates and policies into motion.
1 posted on 03/15/2016 11:38:08 AM PDT by EinNYC
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Wow, they are scared when they have to rely on the high school idiot vote....


2 posted on 03/15/2016 11:46:38 AM PDT by arl295
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To: EinNYC

Anyone dumb enough to still be in high school at 18 shouldn’t vote anyway.


3 posted on 03/15/2016 11:46:41 AM PDT by YourAdHere (Hillary will win. I don't like it. I've just accepted it.)
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To: EinNYC

No doubt there’ll be some “reward” if they register as CommieCrats.


4 posted on 03/15/2016 11:48:54 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: EinNYC

Of course. They indoctrinate them from the moment they get their hands on them, train them well to be poor achievers and to blame others for their failures, teach them to depend on the government, and then get them registered to vote. Probably give them a free ride to the voting place on voting day, too.


5 posted on 03/15/2016 11:49:09 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: EinNYC

NYC schools, huh...too bad reading tests were outlawed.


6 posted on 03/15/2016 11:52:15 AM PDT by lacrew
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Given the school system, these ‘teen’ students are probably in their late 20s. Sort of like the moron who jumped Trump.


7 posted on 03/15/2016 11:54:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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If they’re too busy, they’ll register them and vote for them too.


8 posted on 03/15/2016 11:57:06 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: miss marmelstein

Nope. If you are 21 years of age and you still don’t have the requisite number of credits earned, they kick you out of the NYC school system. Just as well—you want your 14 year old daughter in the same class as a 21 year old do-nothing?


9 posted on 03/15/2016 11:58:34 AM PDT by EinNYC
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I’d bet that the most of these new voters are ‘Little Bernies’.


10 posted on 03/15/2016 12:08:03 PM PDT by CMailBag
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I guess it’s just the look of the kids coming out of my local on 15th street. Yikes! Some have beards.


11 posted on 03/15/2016 12:21:05 PM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Turks (Muslims))
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In the words of Her Thighness, what difference does it make? NY will vote Democrat until Jesus returns, and these 20,000 young voters probably have never met a conservative.


12 posted on 03/15/2016 12:21:37 PM PDT by txrefugee
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Some have beards.

That would likely be your Muzzies with the beards. A lot of them really look like they're in their 20s. And who's to say they're not?

13 posted on 03/15/2016 12:24:00 PM PDT by EinNYC
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Pretty smart of the ny school system.


14 posted on 03/15/2016 12:25:11 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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20,000 18 or older still in high school?

Now that’s failure.


15 posted on 03/15/2016 12:28:06 PM PDT by onedoug
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you want your 14 year old daughter in the same class as a 21 year old do-nothing?

"Transgendered" 21 year old do-nothing - and they'll be showering together...

16 posted on 03/15/2016 12:36:39 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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Volunteer registration workers are targeting more than 20,000 teen students at 60 public schools across the city Friday in a push to sign up new voters.

Young Republicans all, no doubt?

17 posted on 03/15/2016 1:18:01 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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It is imperative the young people vote, so we can benefit from their decades of knowledge and experience, and unique perspective on history


18 posted on 03/15/2016 1:21:04 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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Just proves you don’t need how to read and write to vote. Just make you X here and there.


19 posted on 03/15/2016 4:17:04 PM PDT by oldasrocks (They should lock all of you up and only let out us properly medicated people.)
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