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- **Posted:** 2020-11-04T00:21:25.000+00:00
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“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 goes on over here.”

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📝 Article by Jess Magill and shaylyn martos 
📸 Photo by Katherine Burgos
Link to story: https://goldengatexpress.org/95048/campus/polling-site-on-sf-state-campus-sees-small-turnout/#photo
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