REMARKS
Council Member Rivera's personal voting experiences
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Council Member Carlina Rivera shares her childhood memories of voting, emphasizing the importance her family placed on the act of voting. She recalls dressing up for the occasion and experiencing the voting process with her grandparents and mother.
- Rivera's family treated voting as a special event, dressing up for it like they would for church or air travel
- She remembers the experience of being in the voting booth with the curtain and lever
- The memory highlights the importance of role models in cultivating civic engagement
Carlina Rivera
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Thank you.
0:40:16
Thank you so much for your testimony.
0:40:18
You just gave me such a nice memory too because, you know, my family, we we dress up for special occasions.
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Right?
0:40:25
Special events.
0:40:28
And one would be to go to church, and another would be to get an airplane, which was like a very big deal, especially, you know, when you don't grow up with a lot of money, it's like a privilege to get an airplane and go somewhere.
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And then the and then the third one that clearly comes to mind is that my family would dress up to go vote.
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It was like such an important moment that they wanted to just put their best foot forward, so to speak.
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And so I can recall, like, going into the booth, and I can't tell you what was on the ballot that didn't even matter at at a time.
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It was just the moment of being next to my grandparents or my mom, and then that's when we had the curtain.
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And we had to pull the switch, and it was the lever.
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And I just remember thinking, well, this was something that I get to do soon.
0:41:17
You know?
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So so thank you for that because I I do think it's important as we look to emulate our role models that those they typically start at home, those people.
0:41:29
So thank you so much again for for your testimony.
0:41:33
You know, you mentioned that I wish to say program, which you did in 2020, will you do that program again to send messages to the next?
Edwin Maxwell
0:41:43
Yeah.
0:41:43
Sure.
Tom Gogan
0:41:44
Yeah.
0:41:44
Sure.
