{"id":3759,"date":"2026-09-30T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/?p=3759"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:58:44","slug":"midterm-elections-are-approaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/2026\/09\/30\/midterm-elections-are-approaching\/","title":{"rendered":"JCCC Students Prepare For Midterm Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The midterms are coming up, and students can register to vote until Oct. 13 in Kansas and Oct. 7 in Missouri. Some students at JCCC think that it is very important to vote in the upcoming midterm elections.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI always try to vote in every election that I can,\u201d said Jordan Dorsey, who is studying general studies. \u201cEspecially local elections because I think that is where our voices are most heard. I think it’s very important for young people to get involved in their local elections.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dorsey also works with <\/span>Loud Light,<\/span><\/a> a group aiming to get young adults registered to vote. Loud Light is often tabling around campus.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI had the pleasure of working with Loud Light, and they have educated me on different things that are going to be on the ballot,\u201d Dorsey said. \u201cIt only takes about two minutes to register to vote.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you’re interested in registering to vote, start by going to the Secretary of State of <\/span>Kansas<\/span><\/a> or <\/span>Missouri,<\/span><\/a> depending on where you live and follow the steps provided on the website. For some students, voting has already become a habit.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it’s a civic duty to vote, so I vote in whatever election I’m able to vote in. Because, again, that’s how you get a democracy. You have to have people who vote, and people actually go out and do that civic duty, or else, you know, you don’t have much of a democracy otherwise,\u201d said Colin Fiscus, who is studying psychology.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For other students who have not voted or registered yet, what would make them take a chance?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI guess what everybody wants is for everybody to be happy,\u201d said Kaia Holdenberg, a student who is studying liberal arts.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re interested in registering to vote, start by going to the Secretary of State of Kansas or Missouri, depending on where you live and follow the steps provided on the website. For some students, voting has already become a habit.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[368],"class_list":["post-3759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Saul Epstein","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/sepstein\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/09\/Voting-picture-300x225.jpg","coauthors":[{"link":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/author\/hunter-eagan\/","display_name":"Hunter Eagan"}],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Life<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Life<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 11 hours ago","modified":"Updated 10 hours ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on September 30, 2026","modified":"Updated on September 30, 2026"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on September 30, 2026 12:00 pm","modified":"Updated on September 30, 2026 12:58 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":368,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"hunter-eagan","display_name":"Hunter Eagan","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/files\/2026\/09\/Voting-picture.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.jccc.edu\/messenger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}