Over 100 Sacramento State and City College students explored California voter registration and ballot measures with a panel of election experts Oct. 13 at Sacramento State University.

“The [U.S.] president has little to do with what happens locally,” said one of the speakers, James Schwab, chief of Legislative Affairs at the California Secretary of State’s Office. “You elect the people who can make the changes you care about.”

The non-partisan panel discussion also included Heather Ditty from the Sacramento County Department of Voter Registration and Elections and Carol Moon Goldberg, a director with the League of Women Voters.

Goldberg listed the local issues that voters can affect.

“Your school, your water, your buses. Changes in laws affect everyone’s lives,” Goldberg told students. “This all happens because you choose at the polls, and polls make decisions.”

Ditty gave a local example to demonstrate the importance of showing up to vote: a special election to decide if Freeport, a “census-designated place” just south of the Pocket area,  would become part of the city of Sacramento in 2005.

“Freeport wanted annexation into the city,” Ditty said. “It lost by only five votes.”

Goldberg explained that not every ballot measure requires a vote. She urged students to focus on the few they care about.

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Jared Anderson, adjunct professor at City College and coach of the Sacramento State Hornet debate team, has organized the forum every semester at Sacramento State for the past four years.

Anderson told the Sac State Hornet in an interview that he wanted the student body to be aware of the active debate team and educational opportunities like the forum.

“With the election coming up in 27 days, I really wanted to do something about voter education,” Anderson said.

Anderson’s student and communications major Chase Sims attended to gain credit and information.

“We have this notion that your voice doesn’t matter,” Sims said. “Forums like this help educate people on how important their vote is in this election.”

Before the forum concluded, panelists pointed students toward online resources for further questions or concerns about registration and voting rights.

The California Secretary of State has information on elections, state archives, campaign finance and lobbying activities. For more information, go to http://sos.ca.gov.

Voter’s Edge is a non partisan online guide to federal, state and local elections in California, Illinois and New York and offers voters access to full, personalized ballots by entering residential addresses. For more information, visit http://votersedge.org/ca.