Media Milwaukee Staff, Author at Wisconsin Votes (or not): High Stakes for the 2018 Midterms https://mkemidterms.mediamilwaukee.com A Media Milwaukee special project Tue, 01 Jan 2019 03:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/mkemidterms.mediamilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/cropped-mm-sp-site-logo-inverse-gray.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Media Milwaukee Staff, Author at Wisconsin Votes (or not): High Stakes for the 2018 Midterms https://mkemidterms.mediamilwaukee.com 32 32 153427665 Days Away from the Vote, What Students Are Saying https://mkemidterms.mediamilwaukee.com/days-away-from-the-vote-what-students-are-saying/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 16:51:55 +0000 https://mkemidterms.mediamilwaukee.com/?p=574 “I’m voting for people who can’t necessarily vote – younger people, undocumented people, people who just can’t get to the polls. I am Muslim, so that kind of racism really personally affects me.” - Najwan Hammad, UW-Milwaukee sophomore

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  • “What’s motivating me to vote is all of the recent stuff that’s been happening in the news, and I don’t know, I just feel like if you don’t vote, you are just letting it happen.” – Glory Johnson, UW-Milwaukee junior
  • “I’m voting for people who can’t necessarily vote – younger people, undocumented people, people who just can’t get to the polls. I am Muslim, so that kind of racism really personally affects me.” – Najwan Hammad, UW-Milwaukee sophomore
  • “It’s gonna be super polarizing no matter which way it goes.” – Harrison Vey, UW-Milwaukee senior
  • “Other people push me to vote for what I think is right, but some people say that voting doesn’t matter.” – Vanity Conroy-Munoz, UW-Milwaukee freshman
  • “For me being a white dude, I don’t really face many systemic problems so I am voting on behalf of my friends who do face troubles.” – Patrick Schwegler, UW-Milwaukee junior
  • “I am not registered to vote, no. I just really don’t have information on who is actually in the running. To be honest, I don’t pay attention to politics at all.” – Bekah Dummer, UW-Milwaukee sophomore

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