ELECTION2020 WRAP-UP
City Times
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Volume 75, Issue 1 | November 20, 2020
B Y G AB RI E L SCH NE I D E R Managing Editor
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he 2020 elections r esults have been r eceived. Joe Biden is now pr esident-elect with Kamala Har r is as his vice pr esident. This year has come with challenges including the COVI D -19 pandemic and pr otests against r acial injustices acr oss Amer ica. Thr ough it all, San Diego City College students made their voices hear d and voted. Once the polls closed, five students r esponded to questions on the impor tance of voting and their exper ience.
Paul H er r mann Paul Her r mann, a 42-yearold wor king on his Alcohol and Other Dr ug Studies cer tificate, said he has never missed voting on an election since he was 18. ?I see it as a civic r esponsibility, the same as ser ving on jur y duty or anything else,? Her r mann said. ?I t is cr itical to vote because if you leave your voice out you?r e letting other people make the decisions.? When going over battling disinfor mation, Her r mann said make sur e you ar e infor med and have those tough conver sations with family and fr iends.
D uke Shr ader Duke Shr ader, a student pur suing envir onmental studies, voted for his fir st time this year. Ther e wer e sever al options in this election to send in your ballot. ?I picked dr op-off because I felt like it was safer than waiting in a line with a lot of people with COVI D -19 this year,? Shr ader said. ?I wanted the satisfaction of my fir st time to actually dr op it off myself.?
Students sharetheir voiceson theelection Shr ader said he was unfamiliar with the voting pr ocess but all the r esear ch he did was beneficial in the final decision he made on his ballot.
L udovica Fadini L udovica Fadini, a for eign
exchange student who has lived her e for near ly two year s while wor king as an au pair, said ther e ar e significant differ ences between elections in Amer ica and I taly. ?We ar e not used to people r evolting and we ar e not used to people ar guing,? Fadini
City College students (fr om top) Paul Her r man, Duke Shr ader , Ludovica Fadinin, Anne Par nell, and Ian Rebber t expr essed their opinions about the 2020 election. Gr aphic by Br andon Manus
said. ?We ar e not used to just two (pr esidential) choices.? Fadini expr essed her worr ies on immigr ation policy and has been paying attention to what is happening in this election. ?I t?s kinda har d for me because basically (Pr esident
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Donald Tr ump) alr eady shows a r eally bad idea about immigr ants,? Fadini said. ?He alr eady tr ied to delay my visa. A lot of people who tr ied to apply for my visa got denied in December.? See ELECTION, page 3