They have no power, no weight to throw around. Sure, they've started some nifty programs, but in the long run, they are unable to make big changes. Because students never vote in the A.S. elections anyway, their right to vote should be taken away, and an electoral board should be established to choose who the A.S. officers will be. Maybe then students would wake up. According to a national survey conducted by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill., people who don't vote are, for the most part, uneducated, poor, young and many of them are minority group members.
Most students are poor.
Most students are young. We'd like to think we're educated, but let's face it, we're not. Lastly, a lot of us are minority group members. Most people don't even vote in national elections. Only 48.8 percent of Americans voted in the last presidential election, according to the Skagit Valley Herald.