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The Nov. 8 ballot has a lot riding on it. Along with the presidential candidates
in the running, there are also 17 state propositions that will affect California and its future.
The Express newspaper staff wanted to see how students across campus might vote in the election, so the staff staged a mock election booth Oct. 26 in the Quad. Four hundred and fourteen students checked unofficial presidential voting ballots for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, the only candidates on the ballot. Clinton received 308 votes and Trump received 42 votes. Write-in names made up the rest of the ballots.
Many of the students who voted for Clinton thought she was the best option for president, including theater arts major Walidah Rushiddin.
“Hillary is better than Trump,” Rushiddin said. “She is more educated in politics. Trump causes too many problems and is too negative.”
City College Interim President Michael Poindexter offered his support for Clinton as well.
“We need to have the best person represent the U.S. and the world,” Poindexter said. “Donald Trump doesn’t have a plan in place. Hillary Clinton is better fit to have a plan for college students.”
As stated, the informal ballot was limited to the two top polling presidential candidates, but that didn’t stop students who wrote in candidates.
The candidate who received the third most votes was Bernie Sanders with 19 votes. Sanders will not be on the California ballot because he withdrew from the race in July 2016, but he is a valid write-in candidate. Many students expressed their support for the independent senator from Vermont.
“I was originally a Bernie supporter,” said Michael Trevizo, administrative justice major.
Other write-ins were Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who received 16 votes, and Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson, who received nine votes. Both of these candidates are on the official California ballot.
Students were also randomly asked for their positions on state propositions 56, 64 and 67.
Many City College students felt that Proposition 56, which increases taxes on cigarettes by $2 a pack to fund healthcare, wouldn’t be effective.
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“My mom’s going to be mad,” said Marqell Richardson, an ethnic studies major, “[but] what are they accomplishing by doing this?”
Richardson wasn’t alone in his view.
“It’s a waste of money” said Mykell Brown, a kinesiology major.
Proposition 64 would legalize the control, regulation and tax of adult use of marijuana.
Richardson had a unique perspective on the proposition passing.
“Marijuana kills cancer and should be legal,” he said. “I honestly don’t think the government wants cancer to be cured.”
Some City College students didn’t care for Proposition 67, which bans gro- cery stores from providing plastic bags.
“I’d rather buy food and only food,” Brown said. “Sometimes we can’t get gro- ceries because of the extra 50 cents charge.”
On Nov. 8, Californians will vote to determine which state propositions pass, along with choosing the next president and many state and local candidates.
