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A poll worker hands out an I Voted sticker on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, at The Carver Center in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Abbey Cutrer

‘Your voice is heard.’ Election day brings new voters to the polls

Lilly Keith and Casey Sebastiano November 5, 2024

Across Lexington, Kentucky students took a trip to the polls to cast their first vote in a presidential election. The 2024 Presidential Race has shown nearly tied polls, according to the New York Times, ...

"I Voted" stickers are laid out for voters on Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, at a polling place in Lexington, Kentucky. Photo by Jack Weaver | Staff

Building an appetite for advocacy: How I went from ignorant to energized when it comes to politics

Olivia Walton, Reporter December 16, 2022

Forty-two percent of 18-to-29-year-old Americans believe their vote “doesn’t make a difference,” according to the Spring 2022 Harvard Youth Poll. My mother always told me to never trust a statistic. As...

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