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STUDENTS STEP UP
meet the teen recruiting her peers to the polls WORDS
SYDNEY BLALOCK RITCHIE
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ID YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN BECOME AN ELECTION WORKER even before you’re old enough to vote? North Dallas teenager Sydney Watson, president of the student council at Alcuin School and an artist, learned about the student election clerk program and went on a campaign of her own: to encourage other young people age 16 and up to get involved on election day. We talked to Sydney about her project, called Students Step Up—something you can get behind no matter where you stand politically. How did you get involved with the student election worker program? I first heard about the [program] from my principal, and it sounded like a hands-on way to learn about community involvement. I worked the primary election in March of this year and walked away from it excited about participating again in the future. I even talked my mom into working as a poll dfwchild.com / october 2020
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