League of Women Voters Registers Seniors at Deer Park High School

Educating High Schoolers About Elections and Voting:
Representatives from the League of Women Voters recently visited Deer Park High School on an ongoing mission of vital importance – registering new voters.

Judie Gorenstein and Brenda Reiss, co-presidents of the LWV of Huntington, have been instrumental in delivering the message of the importance of voting to seniors in Deer Park who will be eligible to vote this coming November.

The LWV, a nonpartisan organization whose mission is to encourage and engage citizens into being active and educated participants in government, has helped Deer Park High School register more than 1,000 students over the last four years. According to Gorenstein, the two civic-minded volunteers help to register approximately 25 students in each of the government classes they visit at Deer Park, for an average of 100 newly registered young adults per day.

Gorenstein began their presentation by providing the students some background on the history of voting rights in America, from the nation’s founding and the Civil War to suffrage and the 26th Amendment in 1971, which affirmed the right to vote of those 18 years and older. She noted that in the 2012 election, only 45 percent of the youngest voters – those aged 18-30 – participated in the process.

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