11月6日选举日，博彩平台的学生排了两到三个小时的队，来到莫多克大厅内的投票中心。

“But not one student was upset,” says Courtney Bailey-Kanelos, 萨克拉门托 County’s Registrar of Voters, who was on hand to check in voters. “Instead, they said, ‘Isn’t this awesome?’ They truly felt proud that so many of their fellow students came out to participate in the election.”

许多学生是第一次参加投票，他们在那天创造了历史。

他们在加州一所大学校园内唯一的投票中心为11月的中期选举投票。 萨克拉门托 County was one of five California counties to try out the 2016 California Voter’s Choice Act, a model that replaces traditional polling places with Vote Centers. 萨克州投票中心在选举日之前和包括选举日在内开放了四天。

And students were a part of 萨克拉门托 County’s record voter turnout for a midterm election, with more than 68 percent of registered voters making their voices heard.

Noel Mora, president of 囊状态’s Associated Students, Inc. (ASI), estimates that students accounted for 90 percent of voters who took advantage of the campus Vote Center.

ASI adopted the Vote Center as a part of its 2018 “Rock the Vote” campaign to register more than 200 student voters and ran a shuttle back and forth to the Vote Center from two campus locations on Election Day.

“The effort was only successful because of the cross-community student collaboration in getting out the vote prior to the election,” Mora says. “We hosted two events with many student clubs the week before, to raise interest and awareness of the issues on the ballots. We also gave away ‘Vote’ shirts at these events, and I think it was especially great to see students around campus wearing them.

“Overall it was a campus effort, and students demonstrated what it meant to be a part of one ASI, one student body.”

投票中心也受到萨克拉门托社区的欢迎。 The 588 Conditional Voter Registrations issued at that location were the most among 萨克拉门托 County’s 78 Vote Centers, and only 20 centers accepted more Vote-By-邮件 ballots than the 2,400 dropped off at 囊状态.

“It is amazing that so many students who registered to vote, be it just in 萨克拉门托 County or for the first time ever, came out to cast their ballots,” says Bailey-Kanelos. “We would love to continue to have a Vote Center on campus in the future.” – 迪克西•里德