High School Students Talk about the Importance of Voting

Silvia Rodriguez talks with Thaddeous Rice, Brett Saunders and Aaron Stamper at West Forsyth

In the Monday Oct. 1 issue of the Winston-Salem Journal, reporter Bertrand M. Gutierrez writes about a drive to get high school students to preregister to vote. Two years ago, North Carolina pass a law requiring high schools to hold an annual voter-registration drive. Since then, more than 107,000 students, ages 16 and 17, have preregistered.

Journal photographer Walt Unks took the photographs. For the full story, go to Winston-Salem Journal