Narrative Essay On Primary Elections

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In the last two years I have volunteered in the primary election on June 7th, 2016 a total of 17 hours in which I set up the voting booths and JBC's, helped U.S citizens cast their ballot, and took count on all provisional ballots. I volunteered 17 hours again in the general election on November 8th, 2016 this time I did everything as in the primary election and was in charge of helping the U.S. citizens that only spoke Spanish cast their ballots by guiding them through each vote the Hispanic turnout was very high in my polling center a elementary school in the city of Fullerton, I still worry what would have happened if I a Spanish speaker and reader didn't show up that day. During the summer of 2016 I volunteered 72 hours to my city's Anaheim Central Public Library. …show more content…
On July 16, 2016 I gathered signatures outside of my local Sprouts market for a total of five hours to petition against sprouts selling of Nestle's arrowhead unsustainable water. On November 21, 2015 I went to Green Valley Lake in San Bernardino County to time keep for a forestry challenge for a total of 10 hours. I have four years in the Anaheim High Schools forestry team we meet for three hours a week, I'm currently vice president of the club, and have attended the annual forestry challenge for two years. I've been an active member in key club for two years, we meet for one hour a week and we held a lot of events such as the city's Halloween parade. I've been in NHS for one year the meetings are held monthly for two hours before school begins. I've been in international club for a one year, and in Ecology club for one year. Along with the members of the forestry team I managed an aquaponics farm for the whole summer of 2015 for a minimum of 40

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