By Leslie Moonshine, AADC Registration Team at Sierra College
In our continued efforts to engage young voters, the AADC voter registration teams will be returning to Sierra College campus next week. The Tuesday team, headed by Robert Sherriff, will be on campus the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month: Jan 28, Feb 11, Feb 25, Mar 11, Apr 8, and Apr 22. The Wednesday team, headed by Gail Bartlow, will be on campus each week, with the exception of the week before Easter. The Wednesday team dates include Jan 29, Feb 5, Feb 12, Feb 19, Feb 26, Mar 5, Mar 12, Mar 19, Apr 9, Apr 23, Apr 30, and May 7. Sierra campus will be closed for Spring Break the week of March 24-29.
We will, of course, continue registering and pre-registering students to vote. On our campus visits, we will also engage students in dialog, and we will model civil discussion on controversial topics. We will dedicate time to helping students to identify trusted sources of information and to discern misinformation and disinformation. Through our surveys and discussions, we will focus students’ attention on current national, state, and local events and nudge them toward political activism.
Our regular interactions with students also help us, as a Democratic club, take a pulse on what students are thinking and how they are feeling. Although our sample is limited, we feel that the population at Sierra College gives us insight into the broader community of young voters in Placer County and the surrounding area. And conversing with engaged young voters always lifts our spirits and gives us hope for the future!
Campus visits are posted on mobilize.com. To view campus visit information, please visit https://www.mobilize.us/cadems/event/656095/
Due to increased interest in voter registration, we are only recruiting five volunteers for each campus visit. So if you would like to join us, please contact Robert Sherriff for Tuesdays at rcsherriff@gmail.com or Gail Bartlow for Wednesdays gbartlow@sbcglobal.net, or RSVP on mobilize.com.