Students also express their concerns with midterm elections in their home states.
Alex Selinas studies art history at USC. They are from Arizona and will be voting there.
Alex Selinas: “The local midterms influence most of my community since our community is a very small and prominently immigrant community. So it’s important for immigrants like myself to vote.”
And they are motivated to vote by certain issues.
Alex Selinas: “Mostly abortion issues, Arizona’s mainly a red state. So I, along with other people, want to try to flip it, especially with abortion, since it affects so many people, especially minorities.”
Computer Science and Business Admin major Jevon Torres comes from New Jersey and he says registering to vote out of state can be confusing!
Jevon Torres: “I guess for me it’s the lack of understanding and convenience being across the country. It’s kind of hard to understand what the process is. That being said, I haven’t looked too much into it, but when it’s not like right in front of you, it’s kind of hard to take that effort to go out of your way.”
Torres says depending on where you’re from voting in this year’s midterms can be more or less important.
Jevon Torres: I think it’s different per state. I know some friends who are going to school in Georgia and like in Georgia they had a big push around like the Senator elections to switch over your registration to vote in Atlanta.
With big issues like climate change and reproductive healthcare on the ballot, many studies show young voters turning out in record numbers. Why don’t you be one of them? Vote! Midterm elections are on November 8.