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\nNate Blanchard looks on as student demonstrates ballot drop. (Marc Studer photo)<\/p>

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When Nate Blanchard and other members of the UW Bothell Student Legislative Action Committee were registering fellow students to vote, there was one statistic Blanchard liked to share.<\/p>\n\n

“In the state of Washington in an off-year election like 2017, the average voting age is 62 years old,” said Blanchard, the director of government relations for the Associated Students of the University of Washington Bothell.<\/p>\n\n

To rally the youth vote, the committee registered or updated addresses for 217 voters at UW Bothell and Cascadia College from the start of school until the Oct. 7 cutoff.<\/p>\n\n

Then the committee went to work on a get-out-the vote campaign, making it easy to drop off ballots at a locking metal box on loan from the King County Elections office<\/a>. The box is available on the plaza from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. until Nov. 7. Blanchard takes responsibility for dropping off the ballots each day at the county election drop box at Bothell City Hall.<\/p>\n\n

“What’s very concerning, not disheartening, but concerning, is in this last election cycle in the state of Washington, turnout for the 18-24 age group was about 17 percent, which was just abysmal for a presidential election,” said Blanchard (law, economics and public policy ’17), who is now a master’s in policy studies student planning to graduate in 2018.<\/p>\n\n

When young voters are disconnected from the process, it’s easy to become apathetic, Blanchard said. But now, many have become aware they can’t bypass the ballot.<\/p>\n\n

“I think it dawned on a lot of students, regardless of the field you’re in — business, education, health — laws and policies and politics greatly affect what those fields look like in our country,” Blanchard said.<\/p>

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Other political activities for the Student Legislative Action Committee and student government are a collaborative candidate forum at Lake Washington Tech, and lobby days for students during the legislative session in Olympia.<\/p>\n\n

“Whatever students are passionate about, I want to help them get connected with politics,” Blanchard said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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