“Polling site on campus sees small turnout”
SF State’s polling place, hosted annually as a resource for students living on campus, drew small numbers of the student population on Election Day this year.
Erin Persley, a first-time volunteer poll worker and film lecturer at SF State, and Vache’l Mauro, a 15-year pollster veteran, oversaw the polling site at the Annex 1 building near the University Police Department, a space often utilized for concerts.
“We’ve had a lot of first time voters, and so the last thing you want to do is have their first voting experience to be a negative experience, because you want them to keep coming back,” Persley said.
Sunny Das, a first-time voter, said he was relieved when he found out there was a polling place on campus, since he didn’t have to pay for a rideshare service to drop off his mail-in ballot.
“Right now it’s a very, very important election,” Das said. “If you don’t vote, you don’t get your voice in, and you don’t have any say in what goe...
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