College students get out to vote, participate in election process Tuesday

Like a large number of other college students University of Minnesota freshman Henry Langevin is voting Tuesday Langevin who is voting for state Sen Omar Fateh in the Minneapolis mayoral race declared he would like to see the city lean more progressively moving towards giving people more access to housing and grocery stores that have lower prices having more focus on working class people instead of corporations Participant voters at the U of M headed to the Weisman Art Museum a common place for campus residents to cast their ballots to make their voices heard in the city s mayoral and city council races minnpost MinnPost spoke to University of Minnesota students this morning about what issues matter to them in the Minneapolis voting process Share your thoughts in the comments and check out the rest of this story on MinnPost com universityofminnesota balloting students twincities news original sound MinnPost Fateh and several other candidates are challenging incumbent Mayor Jacob Frey who is vying for a third term Young voters recognize importance of elections Langevin noted he believes more young voters are realizing the importance of local elections We re finding it more crucial what the effect of our vote has The actual impact of the local leaders in our communities he announced The University of Minnesota is no stranger to having a high voter turnout According to their website students at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities voted at a higher rate in than at any other large community four-year institution in the country In a news release earlier this year the Minnesota Secretary of State s website also touted youth turnout throughout the state Minnesota s youth led the nation in voter turnout for the Presidential Electoral contest with of Minnesotans aged - casting a ballot window addEventListener message function a if void a figures datawrapper-height var e document querySelectorAll iframe for var t in a information datawrapper-height for var r i r e i i if r contentWindow a source var d a input datawrapper-height t px r style height d As she headed in to cast her vote candidate voter Safiya Kinnunen described what she was looking for in a candidate I come from the outer suburbs and this is a much more populated area With our governing of the United States of America I would love more diverse and democratic views to be prevalent in our politics she commented Kinnunen who is also voting for Fateh announced equal housing and food insecurity are vital issues to her as a learner Related Portraits of voting in Minneapolis Fateh stands out as a candidate because he really has put in the effort to seek out students in the population and get to know us I really feel like he s been a candidate who s gone out of his way to make sure that the students feel seen and heard she noted Keegan Hennessy didn t say which candidate he is voting for but declared he wants to see impact and change Having a new candidate and a new perspective here is really great and I think it s going to bring a large number of amazing things to our city of Minneapolis Related Will Minnesota governor s race chill collaboration in legislative session Langevin revealed the Weisman Art Museum has made it easy for students to have access to early voting and declared voting information has been available on campus He added there have been several door knockers in his building and that they ve helped students learn how to vote even if they were supporting a different candidate Voting wasn t the only way students got involved in the polls Kaylon King has been an electoral process judge since high school I think it s a right that a lot of people have fought for for a very long time and I think it s just something you should do and everyone should do he commented It gives you an in-depth look at the systems that run this country The post College students get out to vote participate in ballot process Tuesday appeared first on MinnPost