This article appeared in the Dominion Post Newspaper on May 4, 2001. Return to the listing of articles of May 4, 2001. On Thursday afternoon, during his lunch hour he became one of America's newest registered voters at a sign-up in the cafeteria lobby. He penned his name to a manilla-colored voter registration form guaranteeing him his right under the 26th Amendment of t he Constitution.
Every vote makes a difference.
It could be that one vote that sways things the other way. Jackson and 20 of his peers signed the forms. That means 21 more teen-agers, who will be 18 years old before November 2002, can line up at the polls and cast a vote on Election Day. However, the two county clerk deputies and a political science intern who were staffing the registration table say the turnout at UHS is a disappointment. It disappoints me what little political interest people have in this country and how little they know about our political system.