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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Think your vote doesn’t matter? Uneven early voting across LAUSD Districts means it may count more than ever. – Los Angeles Education Examiner

Think your vote doesn’t matter? Uneven early voting across LAUSD Districts means it may count more than ever. – Los Angeles Education Examiner
Think your vote doesn’t matter? Uneven early voting across LAUSD Districts means it may count more than ever.



Are you wondering whether the vote is effectively all over. Whether so many early ballots have been returned there’s, say, little point still in advocating for Schools And Community First (prop 15)? For community college board members? For Schools local bond measure RR? For your LAUSD BD3 (Schmerelson Koziatek) or LAUSD BD7 (Castellanos Franklin) board member?

The TL;DR is Your vote is still needed! Your advocacy is crucial. At best 4 in 5 ballots have not yet been counted as returned. Students are needing their voters’ support.

Who’s already gotten their VBM in? Who votes in the districts electing a school board member?

Turns out, there are 2.6m registered voters in LAUSD (according to PDI as of 10/10/20). Table 1 shows which districts have the most voters. Nick Melvoin’s board district 1 serving the westside and Hollywood area all the way up to Toluca Lake and into Topanga Cyn, has the most registered CONTINUE READING: Think your vote doesn’t matter? Uneven early voting across LAUSD Districts means it may count more than ever. – Los Angeles Education Examiner