Students at Fayetteville State University (FSU) are coming together in droves to head to the polls.
Throughout the day, students marched to FSU’s nearest polling site to make their voices heard. It’s a major event voting advocates hope will motivate marginalized communities surrounding FSU’s campus.
For many FSU students like Brooklyn Edwards, this was their first time voting .
“I just feel really like wonderful, happy to have my opinion be voiced out into the world,” Edwards said. Edwards and her classmates tell ABC11 there is a range of issues they’re concerned about this election:
“My main issues are, of course, reproductive health and reproductive rights. I am a college student, a college girl. So when it comes to, you know, things like birth control, abortions, I feel that’s the woman’s choice,” Edwards said. “And she’s able to decide what she wants to do with her body. I feel like taking that away only cause it’s harm to everyone involved, men and women.”
“As a student, education is a really big thing and we all want education to be affordable,” said Jalon Mcallister-Smith, a senior at Fayetteville State University. “I want every student after me to be able to have access to higher education no matter their background.”