A pair of Albany High School students are working to give their peers and future students a voice in local elections.
For Nirvaan Jaswal and Sam Beynon, two Albany High students, there’s one freedom that’s still out of reach.
“We learn about government, and we form our own opinions on all these things we’re seeing around in our world. But the one thing we can’t do is vote on them,” Jaswal said.
For the last year, Jaswal, a junior, and Beynon, a senior, have been laser-focused on changing that.
“Really, it’s just a matter of young adults who want to make change in the world and they’re being told, ‘No, you’re too young,” Jaswal said.
Just days before the election, they crisscrossed the streets of Albany to distribute flyers, hoping to convince the city’s 20,000 residents to vote yes on Measure V — which would lower the age requirement for local and school board elections to 16.
Their grassroots campaign has already caught the eye of major news outlets , including Politico .