Are you prepared for voting? With this year’s upcoming elections, California State University Stanislaus have been encouraging young adults to register to vote.

In the 2014 general election, voter turnout among California’s youth was one of the worst in California’s history. Only 52% of eligible youth were registered to vote, which was more than 20 points below any other age group and only 8% of eligible youth aged 18-24 voted.

Stan State’s Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) along with other club affiliations where present in the University Quad on Wednesday informing students of the importance of voting.
 Wonuola Olagunju, (Biology, senior) ASI Government Relations Coordinator shared the importance of this event by encouraging students to be civically engaged and most important to be educated on propositions that will be on the ballot.
“Our main focus of this event is to team up with a variety of different clubs and organizations and relatively become non-partisan and try to engage students with registering to vote, voter rights, ballot information such as propositions,” said Olagunju.
Throughout the event, the ASI Government Relations booth had a table where students could register to vote which took less than 10 minutes in most cases and is essential to the voting process. ASI members explained to students the different options on how they could vote. From going to poll location and also getting ballots mailed to their address.
Mateo Maldonado, (Political Science, Senior) shared his experience on how it feels to be a civically engaged student for this event.
“As being part of Mi Familia Vota we encourage students to really have an understanding of the different propositions that are on the ballot. Prop 10 is a really big one this year. If passed, this will help give the right to local communities to set fair limits on rent increases on all homes. This is something students who provide their own income should take into consideration,” said Maldonado.
ASI Government Relations also teamed up with CHIRLA who shared ballot recommendations translated in Spanish for the Latin community.
Rosa Barrientos (Ethnic Studies, Junior) was invited to this event from Sacramento State where she is part of the CHIRLA organization.
“So far we have had a good turn out. Students are really liking that we have a lot of information at our booth specifically the latinos students who have parents that only speak Spanish,” said Barrientos. 
She continued to share the importance of having information on the ballot and having it translated in Spanish for students to be able to take back home and share with their parents who cannot read in English.
In addition Rock the Vote provides a service that allows people to register to vote. Make sure to register to vote before Monday, Oct. 22nd and make time on Nov. 6th to go out and vote.
To check if you are registered to vote you can go to voterstatus.sos.ca.gov or you can contact your county elections office. To contact the Stanislaus elections office you can call or email at (209) 525-5200 from  8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. or emailed at [email protected].