Warren County Students Participate in Electoral Process

The 2008 election was not only historic for the nation, but memorable for many Warren County High School students who were eligible to vote for the first time. Some students voted early in order to avoid the lines while others waited until actual election day in order to get the full experience of casting their ballot for the first time. Some students and recent graduates even served their community as poll workers on election day as well.

Lashandria Reynolds, a senior at Warren County High, works part-time at the Warren County courthouse in the Youth Apprenticeship Program. Reynolds' main duties at the courthouse include working with death certificates and filing civil cases.

Her participation in the program also gave Reynolds an up-close look at what is involved behind the scenes in an election when her normal day's work at the courthouse stretched well into the evening. Reynolds assisted in the counting of absentee ballots as the votes were tallied from throughout the county. "The election was a lot of hard work and much more involved than I ever thought it was."

2006 Warren County graduate, Kenvoris Blair, spent election day serving as a poll worker at the Ricketson polling station on the Wrens Highway. Blair stated, "Turnout was heavy. We normally have 12 to 13 turn out to vote and this year we had 131."