Teen Vote 2000

A democracy project. Funding for Kebo Duval's was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by Pacific Gas Electric. Additional funding was provided by Mervyn's California. The 64 Area Foundation are run out of Coast Central Credit Union and the members of. Citizens of to go to the election on national state and local candidates and initiatives. And for the first time high school students voted along with them on the ballot. With results reported here tonight. White on Team vote to ballot. Good evening everyone. I'm Bruce Lee. Thanks for joining us for the next one hour from 10 to 11 here on TV we're going to be bringing you a unique and we hope educational show for you. It is a joint project between the League of Women Voters the schools the elections department and also a

public television station. Your public TV station KTV right here in your recap. We are going to be tabulating the teen vote. We're precincts and ballots were put ballot boxes were put in all the high schools in Humboldt County. I'm comparing that to the regular vote. What's important about this is not only the comparison but many of these people who are teen voters will be voting in the next presidential election in 2004. So we hope that you enjoy the program. My first team a correspondent for tonight is Suzanne Dunning who is from Arcadia high school. Suzanne thanks for being with me tonight. As we said we are going to be comparing the results of the election with the teen election. We'll also be taking you to the local candidates to the victory parties and talking to the candidates who have won and informing them that they've won the teen vote. We'll also have tape reports special behind the scenes of 2000 teen Vote 2000 of which you have won which we will see in a few minutes. But first we want to introduce you first to our resident analyst for tonight who is Glenn Stockwell. He's standing by with the man. Glenn and I may have to take it away. Thank you Bruce Fessenden unique evening in American politics and we hope you find this equally

fascinating and unique. I'm here tonight with Keech director of community relations. Amanda Tillman. So tell us something about how we're getting our results and see. Well I'll tell you Glenn they're coming in from all different sources we have information coming in from mail in ballots. We also have municipal ballots that were delivered right here in the studio and they're being counted as we speak. We have information coming in from the Humboldt County Elections Department and we're also of course using electronic sources for national and state results. Our office is up stairs have really been transformed all sorts of internet investigation going on up there. And we also invite folks to give us a call or send us an email with some feedback. We have our. Feedback line 7 0 7 4 4 5 5 7 8 3. And also folks can e-mail us at Team vote at DOT PBS dot org. We encourage people's input. We also like to welcome people who are listening to our simulcast which is on Kema ninety one point one. We're going to keep you updated with

national state local results throughout the evening. And let's take a look at those right now. We're going back to Bruce. All right thanks very much. Let's take a look at some of the races. We'll have those up there for you shortly. Obviously the big race tonight was the presidential race and it looks at this moment. And here's the here's how it will look for you the rest of the evening. We'll have the teen vote in blue on the left and the regular vote on the right. There you can see that the teams went for Gore and almost went for Nader over Bush on the regular vote. Bush and Gore pretty much of a tie although it does look like that Bush will become the next president of the United States. Let's go on and show you some of the other races that we'll be looking at tonight. Obviously the U.S. Senate race a big one. Incumbent Democrat Dianne Feinstein is leading in both the teen and the adult vote tonight going on to our next race which is U.S. representative Congress District 1 Mike Thompson pretty much assured of an easy re-election bid there and winning in both the teen and the regular vote I simply stated

that the district one genius Tom Martin holding a strong lead over both challengers and obviously winning in both the teen and the adult categories there. The supervisor Humboldt County district. We're going to be talking about that quite a bit throughout the evening. That is a dead heat in the teen vote. And just slightly more for Smith than the then Jack many on the so-called adult votes side of it. Also a quick look at some of our measures here. We've got three bond measures that eight propositions all together on the ballot. And the teens and adults both agree that the measure 32 veterans board act should pass measure 33 which is giving the legislature and the persistent public employees retirement system is actually going down to defeat. Equally among regular voters and the between voters that we have polled so far on this 34 which is the campaign spending limit a lot of controversy on that one but basically that's a flip flop. We've got the no vote on that for the teens adults or regular voters saying yes 35 which is using private contractors for public works

both teens and regular voters throughout the county today so far are saying yes on that one. That's a 36 very controversial drug treatment initiative is being upheld by both the teens and the regular voters. And measure 37 which is the vote requirement. That is again a split vote there with the teams saying no adults say yes and 38 the all important school vouchers measure is going down to defeat by both teens and regular voters. And the final measure that we have measure 39 which is the 55 percent vote to pass basically school bonds as a split vote there. Teens say it should happen. But don't say it shouldn't big issue I'm sure for it for kids there. You got a chance to I guess play a little bit reporter there a reason why didn't you. Yes. Kind of interesting that the registration process in the voting process is pretty much duplicated the adult voting process so I did a story about that.

Yeah. And she did and was at her high school and we have a tape of Suzanne's story and we're going to look at that right now. For many teens teen vote 2000 has been a great experience. It was the first opportunity for them to voice their opinion through voting. And they gave them real life experience in the voting process. It's it's a rite of passage kind of thing into adulthood and responsibility. And that's something I look forward to the teen vote interests me because it's our future. In our hands the way we need to know what young minds are thinking and it's going to help us decide what way our society is going to go in the future. And I think empowering youth is what we need to do. Kids teens need to feel that adults are listening to them. And I think this is a way to help that happen. It's a major major effort. I bet if we counted up all the

volunteers from the league and all the kids that have helped in the cyber tribe and people like Keitt and other people in the community we'd probably have well over 120 140 volunteers is organizing things and just doing the basics. There were no schools there were somewhere between three and five people who went to register at all the different schools. There were other people who went to all the community schools and the homeschoolers were all contacted by phone. Within a major effort. And. It's hard to know whether or not the teachers are really going to come out and vote. We're trying to accommodate their needs in whatever ways we can. Some students have said they'd rather vote at school because of transportation problems or that what we're going to do is we're going to allow them to do a mail in ballot when they receive their sample ballot. It will have the option of using it as a mail in ballot.

A local non-profit youth group called Ciber tribe providing computer expertise and data entry at their facility in Archita. We were anticipating that it would take about 1 minute for registration. It actually takes about three to four. And of course as you know with human to human center their handwriting oftentimes you can't read it. We're not getting the precincts up so we have to. It it's down a little bit. So it is taking a lot longer than we had anticipated. And so it will be done on time 7:30 on Sunday is the deadline. And then on Monday afternoon we FedEx the files down to the printers where they will do the labels and get all the sample ballots up. In Humboldt County. The total number of teams registered to vote 2000 was around 2400. The registration rate was much greater when Toona high due to a higher teacher involvement. 128 students registered in Akeda and close to 800 registered in Eureka. Predictions about the way the teams vote will generally mixed. A high though it seems the direction teens will be voting is pretty clear.

Hard to say nationally but around here I can tell you that Bush is going to get his butt kicked. This is a very liberal community especially with the teenagers. There are going to be a lot of votes for Gore and a lot of votes for Ralph Nader. So the parents chagrin or not I don't know but I know that pretty much every teenager I've talked to say one is going to be voting on the left hand side of the polls this year. You know in this area they can be primarily Democratic Green Party especially this school. So I'd say it's definitely a lot of different results. The national election I think the probably pretty similar to being raised by a Republican parent you'll probably have a Republican kid. You know you're a product of your environment so I'd be pretty evenly not. Suzanne Dunning reporting on registration day my kid in high school. We were frank with you that. How did you find the enthusiasm level and what kind of response did you get when your students were definitely optimistic about voting. I think they were really encouraged. I think they really were really excited about it.

George Bush looks to be president so they're going to have a lot of unhappy people that are going to vote tomorrow. So it's like OK Glenn Stockwell is standing by with Byrd luck to you. More on tonight's vote Glenbard relock. He is a past president the League of Women Voters and their help was critical in putting together a huge undertaking 7000 high school students. How did you do that. Well we have a lot of volunteers a great many members of the league volunteer to help out in registration. They helped in putting the information into the computer after their children. That students registered and they also tonight we had a great many volunteers in the precincts. They were at the precincts with students and they also were bringing the ballots to be counted at 6 o'clock and then again at 8:00 o'clock and volunteers just doing all kinds of things. Great terrific effort. Huge. Let's go back and take a look at the process go back to Bruce.

All right. Thanks very much. Suzanne and I are going to take a look at that some of the election results right now and we'll start once again with the presidential race which is really nationally right now is still too close to call although it looks like it is leaning towards George Bush to be the next president but in our team vote here it looks like Gore obviously won. But number two almost was Ralph Nader which didn't necessarily reflect the the other voting. Suzanne what about the supervisor race there. Well it looks like the vote was pretty much tied there between between Giacomini and Smith. The adult vote come in a little bit higher for Smith but it's pretty close there. OK. One important one we have is measured thirty eight which is the school vouchers which is going down a resounding defeat on both levels. Obviously the teen vote which I understand that said maybe about 35 or 40 percent of our of our entire team vote has been tabulated so if those kind of numbers hold I think that vouchers would go down on for both the parents and their kids. Arcadia

city council big race tonight. Yeah. Stewart was kind of guaranteed to win then. It looks like she came up ahead in both the teen and the adult vote. Our newest following close behind and go forth titans of both the teen and the adult. And a big measure of course is measured P and Arcadia which would extend for another four years the city's utility users tax that only takes a simple majority does not take a two thirds vote and that is obviously winning on both the team and the regular vote right now. And and OK we have I understand that we have Connie Stewart on the phone as that's what I understand Connie can you hear us. Yes I can. Oh very good. Well thanks so much for joining us. See you. It looks like you are going to be re-elected without a great deal of doubt about that at this point in time. What kind of changes do you see on the Council Connie. Well actually you know that until the votes are we're we're still on pins and needles here. I would say careful there's enough but you know

we were going to wait until the last vote is counted. When you if you are re-elected what kind of changes would you like to see on the council there. Well I don't think we need to have a lot of changes. I think that we've got a good program and we need to implement it and continue. We've just approved a new general plan. We have to implement that. Hold on one second. If we I've got two cell phones ringing here. This is live television. Here I am. OK. And we've got some Greenbelt protection to do with some work to do as well. So we've got a lot to do. OK Connie. Suzanne Dunning our team correspondent here wanted to ask you a question. OK great. Cory got three cell phones in front of me and they're all trying to put the other two down and just talk to us right now. OK. I will. Connie I was just wondering how do you feel about winning the teen vote election. I'm very thrilled to win the general election and I think it's just wonderful.

He's got an opportunity to put into their city. It's just a wonderful honor and I thank them all for voting for me. Thank you so much. Congratulations. Kerry Stewart joining us live via phone thanks very much. You can turn on those other two cell phones now. We're going to go over to our analysts desk with Glen Stockwell again. Glenn thanks Miles. I'm here with the Ron Parent-Teacher Eureka high school RASC been very involved in this effort. How did you get involved and why did you get involved. Well I received a package in the mail and I actually got to talk to Maggie. One of the presidents leaving voters and she made this made this project come to life for me and the prospect of having teens be involved in this and bringing the drama of the political process to them so they can understand that soap opera was very intriguing. And my hope was that if they understand the soap opera they understand the process that the pattern participation will continue into the future. The team vote I think I think is important because that is

training in terms of evaluating the ballot measures and the local races in detail. It is a process that we hope that the other adults have down down the road of future strength. You know there's a similar effort called Kids Voting USA in fact that they have an interesting Web site it's kids voting USA daughterboard and they try to involve kids from 10 to 12. So it's a it's a more extended effort but it started interesting thing. Some folks from Arizona were in Costa Rican fishing and started to wonder why Costa Rica had 80 percent turnout in their elections. And one of the things they found was that it was a habit or a tradition of taking children would go with parents to the polls. What they found was they got some some sort of bubble up effect from the kids voting once they started doing this. Parents of kids who were involved in the program started voting more often. It's nice to think that the same thing would happen with Tivo knee ligament vote I was hoping some of these teens who

were voting in the teen vote would be dragging your parents along to the polls as well. And yeah. So I'm just amazed at the changing tools that are being used in elections over the 34 years I've been teaching and going from using TV was pretty wild for a while and then taping everything up and now of a sudden we've got satellite feeds and almost instantaneous information. In fact just today I asked my students to get an update on the process of the election in progress. And all they had to do was turn around and go online in my classroom. And then there were the results. Revolutionary change me talking about drama. This election really had it. That's for sure it can be down the wire goes back to Bruce and see what's going on. All right thanks very much speaking of down to the wire we have been playing. Go forth on the phone right now. Are you there. Yeah he's there. OK. OK. That didn't sound like the way where to try again. This is live television folks this is great. Well go forth. Are you there. Yes.

OK Dwayne. I don't know if you've been informed but you are second to Mayor Connie Stewart and our team vote tonight. And what to do. Yeah I wondered how you felt about that would you like to expand a little bit more on it. Well I feel really happy and like I really believe that the younger people in our community. And I'm very happy to be second in the teen vote. And I hope to win the election although it seems like it could be a while before we find out the final result. I think that that's true. I think this one will probably go on late into the night. One question Duane if you are elected to the council that would obviously be a little bit of a shift in the arcade a city council. Do you agree and how do you feel that that shift would would would come about. I do agree a little bit I think that if I was elected perhaps I would be what you might call a swing vote. In other words I would listen to everybody from both sides of the aisle and try to prevent ideas from all across the or Qaeda

people and and try to do my best to listen and to and to respect people who came down to the city hall and wanted to speak out. I think it's really important these days to listen to everybody in our town. All right. Wayne thanks very much. We'll try to get back to you and keep watching and we'll see how you do on the real vote. And then also on our TiVo Let's take a look at some of the results we have right now. And I believe we probably started once again with the president. You can see that Nader was a very strong three in 19 vote on the on the presidential bid and also the whole county supervisor of the first district is a dead heat from about 40 percent or so ballots I believe that we have calculated from the vote. And let's take a look at some of the ballot measures that we have we're looking at today with the bond act. Obviously measure 32 would look like both the teens and adults say yes to that measure 33 which would let the legislature into the first system public employees retirement system is

being defeated now by both the teen and the regular ballot measures measure 34 campaign spending limits is a split vote. The teens say no. The regular voters say yes. Measure 35 which is letting private contractors in for public works is agreement between the teen and the adults or the regular voters. 36. The drug treatment program is a yes on both the teen and regular voter level. Measure 37 which is the vote requirement is a split. Once again teens saying no. And regular voters say yes measure 38 school vouchers. A resounding defeat for both on both the teen and the regular level and also measure 39 which would change the way that we could improve school bonds from a two thirds to 55 percent vote is split. Both teams are saying yes and the adults are saying no at this point. We have with us right now the editor of the barque student newspaper at

Eureka high who is Claire Lang Claire has a wonderful last name and is of no relation. Thanks for being with us. Thank you. We will be looking at some of the city council races there which we have not seen so far. We do have some city council races but you had some some pretty big issues that you were looking at when you were over there. Yeah. Wow. Actually the awards were. Up for about two and four. Well we have five wards in the city and we've got two and four and basically a ward is just a geographic area right. Yeah well everybody in Eureka votes for the wards and the only thing is that the candidates that are elected for the wards have to live in that region. So the entire city votes but the candidate has to live in either 1 and 4. OK very good. I think we do have some election results from both Ward and Ward Ward. We have those. OK. We're going to take a look at those a little bit later. I understand that you like Suzanne

played TV reporter there. I did actually at the forum that they held a little interview when they were cleared to put together a tape and we're going to take a look at that right now. The first ever teen vote forum for Eureka city council candidate was held in the Eureka high school auditorium on the 2nd of November. It was an excellent turnout of over 200 students. Chris Kerrigan and Connie Miller who were running for Ward for Jeanette Jackson and Peter LA valley running for Ward 2 were all present at this event. He was put on by US history teacher Ron Perry freshmen history class. They organized the stage on which the candidates sat and with some help from the League of Women Voters made the event like a real adult debate. Teens in the audience were asked to participate by writing questions down on cards for candidates to answer. The possibilities of things such as a skate park and just swimming pool were discussed at this time. The skateboard. Obviously I need to be like our Queen and that means

trails and bike ways and opportunities like skateboard parks and swimming pools. I think that that's one of the things as a city we need to very intense. And I think it's important that we that we look at the results the teen vote listen to what are you are saying here and again for these that you think are important. So then I'll help you to get what you after about 45 minutes of debating each candidate proposed their closing statements and thank everyone for coming. I feel it was a great way for my generation to see what the real world is like and get the experience of debate and voting under our belts. It was an overall success. Good from here I'm like. OK now we think that we might be looking at some of those results for both war and ward for we think about that Claire. There's more to what do you say. Well the book seems to favor Lavalle and the adult vote. Obviously Virginia and jack stands right now.

That's a pretty tight race. Either way you look at it. Ward 4 which is of course between the incumbent Connie Miller and young Chris Kerrigan. We have a obviously the teens and the regular voters are going with Kerrigan right now which is kind of odd. Speaking of that we do have Connie Miller on the phone right now. Connie are you there. Hi. Hi. Hi Connie thanks for joining us on Team vote 2000 here on KTV. We were wondering right now you know the race is a little bit too close to call also by the regular voters or the teen voters here at the forum at the Eureka high school you had promised not one but two skating parks there. How do you how do you feel about that now. And and if you were to win reelection. Well actually that came out of a meeting with the city manager David Tyson we were discussing the skate board parks and he said I don't think one's enough for a city is if you because our state is is busy all the

time and so it talks about the possibility of doing. Clear our team correspondent had a question for you. Yeah I was there. Hi. I was just wondering how you feel about running up against somebody as young as Chris Kerrigan. Well you know the truth is clear that I wasn't running against Chris Kerrigan. I was running against a group of very powerful people in the city of Eureka who don't share my progressive vision celebrating success and making this a beautiful city that's welcoming two successful people. That's really who I was running against. You get a feeling that this one is going to go pretty late Connie. Oh I think so it's not over but I think it's going to go down to the wire. There are a lot of absentee ballots to be counted and I we were not getting percentages over a network. So I don't really know what percentage of the vote is in or what percentage of the vote is

the absentee ballot. What are you getting or are you getting just picked numbers. We're just getting in. Oh I see. OK. We're getting presented with. I see. But I have no idea how many of you can imagine that can be kind of confusing and probably a bit nerve racking on a night like tonight. Well I expected it to be this way because we we're told been told that they weren't going to count the absentee ballots so wait until probably you know after tonight. And so I really didn't expect to have firm numbers should I. All right Connie Miller thanks very much for voting us for joining us here on teen vote 2000. Thank you very much. OK. Thanks to all the teams get started. I'm really proud to take part in this process. Thank you. Thanks for calling. OK. Thanks Connie. All right let's go over to Glenn Stockwell over on our analyst desk right now. Thanks Bruce. I know in my classes my students were fascinated with the idea of someone who was going to turn 21 the day before the election being an election. What happened. I was first received in your class.

Well they too were excited by the prospect of seeing a councilman that's only a couple of years older than them and they were really drawn to him because of his youth and his he was really my patients have in India before him and that really paid off for him in terms of the T.M.. Looks like one of the things my students got to see was the drain on someone in an election because Chris came to my night classes quite a while after my day classes and it was obvious that he was quite tired hard process campaigning. Well even in a local election now the money spent in the time and energy that spent is enormous and that you can really see on the faces of both Chris Kerrigan and Jack Mooney and Jimmy Smith Absolutely particularly along with those those 16 month race very long time ago. Bruce back over to you. All right thanks very much. We've got some quick results so we wanted to look at very quickly before we talk to Virginia bassed Jackson. But we do have some results that we could see those up on our screen. Obviously the presidential vote once again you don't vote was about a dead tie and

pretty much was around the rest of the country although in the teen vote in Humboldt County Gore was a solid number one Bush two but they very very close to number three. Let's take a look at some other ones we've got here obviously the three seats. This is an open race and the City Council for Archita Stewart or nélisse and go forth one two three in our team vote Stuart Baki and also Allison Goforth are tied for the third seat position with the regular vote. Let's take a look at some of the other measure P which is a big one extending that utility users tax of four years that is being approved by both teens and regular regular voters. Now we do have Virginia bassed jacks and we understand on the phone Virginia are you there. I am. Oh very good. Thanks so much for joining us. Our chief correspondent Claire Lang wanted to ask you a question. OK. Hi. I was just wondering it looks like you're a little ahead in the adult vote but a little bit behind in the team but what do you think about that.

Well it's obviously disappointing that I don't really know what to say. I think it's a great opportunity that exist to share. And I'm glad for me to take advantage of that opportunity. And you know maybe I can answer the question the way they'd like me to. But it's a great learning experience for me as well as for the team. Virginia are you getting that. We just talked to Connie Milton a little while ago and getting the feeling that this both these races are going to go late into the night. Do you give them that feeling too. I think this this race especially the second word is quite close. I understand that most of the precincts have reported and there are still absentee ballots out. So I think it'll it'll go a few more hours I don't know if it'll go way into the night. You know how do you think are you expected. Do you expect the results to come in and then all of a sudden there's a glitch and they don't come in. So it's really hard to say for certain. When I think it's going to and you should try reporting them sometime. Hi Kelly. I can only imagine. I remember years ago when my father ran for supervisor. I went to bed not knowing her last

night. And I think he only went one by 39 votes. That's the Dewey Defeats Truman headline guy. Very scary. Virginia thanks very much for joining us on TV. A thousand francs I think it's a great TV. Thanks for having me. We're going to go over to live in Ron once again it a little bit more in depth look at these races. Thanks Bruce. This is a classic race seems to me Ron. A well-known name versus a local activists. What happened when these folks showed up for the forum. Well I was I was excited that Virginia was there because the purpose of TiVo was to instill some excitement about the kids in the process and that perhaps down the road that they would become involved in politics later. And when she mentioned that she graduate from Eureka high school not too long ago they were excited about that prospect and the projected themselves perhaps on that stage and in class later on. It was nice to see a local person coming back to their old high school to speak to the students. Did you. Did you do a straw poll after the fall. Yes I did.

And the fact that you graduate from high school like I think you know one of these i was interesting you mentioned the difference between your students who were sophomores and juniors which I thought was pretty interesting but there's seems to be a big break between the sophomore and junior students. The sophomores have a tendency of about 80 percent of them will vote the same way their parents are voting. But when they're my junior students only four in each class said they were going to vote as they would they would if they could vote the same way their parents do. So perhaps some rethinking or perhaps something else is going on between us. You know that. But it looks like a watershed moment. Yeah that's interesting. Now back to Bruce. All right thanks very much guys. I want to introduce our next teen correspondent Ryan guy who is Gary Booker. He is the editor of the Fortuna high school paper. There we are over there. Gary thanks very much for being with us. Hello. Have you been editor of the £49. I'm in my second year as editor at this moment. But I have been on the staff for three years ever experience anything like 13:34 I must say no this is a unique experience and I

understand you're not just a guy who writes with a pen and paper. You actually got a camera up there and did a little reporting. I actually did have an opportunity to do so. And Gary did put together a piece from Fortuna high which looks at a couple of very interesting measures that we're going to take a look at that tape right now. I know you're wondering how to go it was so successful here we had all. Well I think it was mostly with women voters who got the information out to us. We have a really good department and we're involved in all teachers just did their part to post things out to just to students. We had some classes that we promoted it pretty well. According to the League of Women Voters over 2100 area teenagers registered for teen vote two thousand four hundred one roughly 18 and a half percent to 4 to the high. One of the issues facing voters on Election Day is Proposition 38 an initiative geared towards public financing of private education. If the measure proves

to be victorious tonight the state will be mandated to provide $4000 vouchers to parents who wish to have their children to private schools. I'm so tired of I'm signing on property. I'm not really sure I see both sides where it could be spending spent on. He's experience. Whereas if you are going to be public property funds I'm not. That would be beneficial to the students but he can also give students. The opportunity to go to private schools and he would also get a lot more accountability to teachers and their standards. So come election day will you be voting more. I'm not really trying to be the one trying to do this. I disagree with what it's saying. I mean every school vouchers be a very good thing but this one is poorly written and I think it will do a lot more harm than

good in the long run. Despite strong opposition among many students for the high. There were still those who support the option of government funded private education. I feel that if in a public school a student feels that they aren't getting the proper education they deserve. That they should have the right. To go to a private school and get it's like a more intimate environment and we're learning and they should be able to get the kind of attention that they need in order to get out of school what they want. So on your team vote ballot. For now I'm definitely going be for it. Although opinions may vary for the high the students do agree on one thing that they had a unique opportunity to express themselves at the polls. I'm Gary. Tuchman reporting. Gary I understand that you had some of the best involvement with Pinball 2000 of all schools of Humboldt County. What do you think that is. Well the teachers really promoted it. They advertised in their classes

and passed actually passed out the registration forms so it helps a lot. Obviously people were pretty people pretty enthusiastic when you approached them on camera. I'm not really a lot of people didn't really want to talk on camera with us. It's not that we did find varying opinions. Now you you focused in on a measure whereas most everybody pretty much looked the candidate you looked at Prop 38. What was the sense you got after your piece. I mean you know the whole idea of vouchers kids kind of skeptical about the idea. A lot of the students are against that measure due to the fact that it takes money away from public schools and they're not too thrilled about that. They feel that their education in public school is sufficient enough for them and that money being taken away from that would cause more harm than good. Well as we have seen in both our team and our regular vote of Prop 38 the school voucher measure is going down to defeat on both ends. They want to send it over back over to Glenn Stockwell for some analysis of Prop 38 and a few other measures.

It's either with the drug or propositions right. Well you for your questions but my students were primarily concerned about 36 38 39 and 36 on drug rehab. They were very much in favor very strongly. I'm 38. They're very much against it only. It wasn't so much taking resources away from school. It was on First Amendment grounds a lot of concern about religion and state. My students were primarily concerned with 1:38 was the removal of resources from the school. They saw it as another blow to the public school system and. They were adamantly against it. They're not necessarily satisfied with the education we're getting but they don't want another blow to bring it down any further. All right. How about on thirty nine no school board election. Once again what interested students the most with the bond issues that or the propositions that affected them the most so 38 39. And hopefully it won't affect them very much but the drug one interested in as well.

There are similar themes in that 30 9:38 in terms of resources. Real interesting thing came up with my son 34 when they first looked at it. And that's campaign contributions were very much in favor of it. But as we talked about and look deeper where it came from the lack of public hearings and that it was wasn't too early or that the courts are looking at they started have some real trouble with it. We ended up deciding it might not be a good idea. Well especially when the students heard that soft money was going to be allowed in this. And once they knew what soft money was they were they were against it as well. And at first they were against it. They were for it in my class. The same can be said for Proposition 37 the moment they heard about who wrote it that it was written by oil companies and tobacco companies. They changed their opinion on it. And at first they were overwhelmingly for it. But in the end they were overwhelmingly against it. We had the same experience and it was one those lessons were people looking to see who was behind proposition's tells you almost as much as the proposition does at least at first blush

and it appears tonight if you look at the adult ballot perhaps people didn't read beyond the title. And I think that's a very good light. A lot of the kids who have looked at since students have had a chance to look deeper into them because people like you and forcing you to in classes you know where they've come from what some of the ramifications are things that not very many of us really get into when we're just looking at the ballots from a first time proposition. And I think my students are going to be disturbed tomorrow that 37 and 34 passed because in the end they were really really adamant that these were bad ideas for California. And I'm about to provide a really good lesson for them about how important it is to really examine the ballot. Absolutely. And how difficult it can be about Proposition 33. My students were not going to be very friendly to retired legislators and neither were mine and neither was the electorate tonight. I cut them loose. No I'm not no free rides. Exactly. I'm not going to cut us loose. Throw it back to Bruce.

You're right sometimes a lot of these things are so confusing that there's an old adage that when you don't know vote no that's what happens a lot of times because of this confusing ballot language. Let's take a look at some of our results right now. Once again the presidential election and the teen vote here in Humboldt County it was Gore followed by Bush and then closely followed by Nader. The others not really even showing much of a of a tally there at all. And be the adult vote pretty much mirror the national vote. A representative for Congress District 1 Mike Thompson pretty much cakewalk both in the team and regular votes. Moving on to some of the other races that we have state assembly district one year Strom Martin looks like she got a sizable vote from both the teams and the regular voters. This is with the teen vote I believe about 50 percent or more of our ballots counted. The veterans bond Act which is measured 32 is passing by both the regular count and the teen vote count also measure 33 is losing in

both the team and the regular ballot count measure 34 which is the campaign spending limit measure which would overturn a previous one that was approved by voters. Has both the adults and the teens that want to say adults but the teens and the regular vote is saying no to that one measure 35 five for the private contractors for public works is going down to defeat on both the teen and regular ledgers also measure 36 a drug treatment program is being approved by both teens and regular voters measure 37 which is the vote requirement. These split vote. Their Teeth say no regular voters said yes that's 38 school vouchers are going down to defeat on both lever levels and Omniture 39 which is the school facilities instead of a two thirds vote would be a 55 percent vote. That is to say yes and the adults I believe said no I might have missed out on that one. Anyway our next teen correspondent who joins us right now is Andrea Logio who is with the big gun charter school.

She actually lives in arcade but goes to the Big Lagoon charter and I guess like some of our other correspondents you got a chance to play Reporter to her. I went to the Senate primary. OK. And you came across a number of issues there didn't. Yeah it was pretty lively audience. And you put together a tape piece for them. Well we do have a tape piece from Andrea. We'd like to take a look at that right now. Students attended the second from Yreka high school Jimmy Smith and Mark Giacomini gave an interesting debate possibly their largest and lively crowd in over 20 appearance. One aspect of the debate that may have surprised some were their views on clearcutting. Any you know read that you can read. Something the audience actually expressed interest in was the building of a school.

Where. You. Didn't seem to get a lot of. Class debate between the rancher and the fishermen. They made some promises to. The drug problem is scary and kids don't realize the damage they can do before they get sucked in. That's a head and shoulders above anything else as far as I'm concerned. Well I think you talked about some of today with some substance abuse questions talked about pregnancies. We talked about things that are important to the economy that we are all going to be very important here. I'm here for our team to fight like where does the presidential race.

We've heard is just still too close to call We're talking about around the nation which many of us that are channel surfing out there what you shouldn't be doing is to be seen here and watching us. But anyway it is still too close to call but it's still it's interesting on our team about how that did come about. Some of the issues that you talked about facing Humboldt County. What would be some of the important issues facing the Latino community. Well ever and I've talked to is strongly opposed to Prop 13. Sanchez has a case in point. Yes so this is a second cousins. They expressed interest in having more and more spread throughout the county. Bratton must to see them but did you get much of a response from Jack Benny or Jimmy Smith on the Latino issues. I when they found that jobs like most other things.

How did you feel about the teen vote. It was pretty good from your point of view when you went out with the camera and did that story. Pretty pretty good response you got. People seemed successful to me. We're excited about. OK. We do have Jimmy Smith standing by live on the phone. Jimi are you there. They're quite good. Good to hear from you. Looks like this is going to be a real barn burner here through the night here. Yeah well actually the voter are very and here we are we're probably not going to get all the provisional counted up for several days. So there's still work to do. Can you live with that kind of suspense for this many days. Well I think so. You know a few hundred votes here. So we'll just hope that that holds. Obviously with either you or wolf going to the board it's going to change the makeup of the board of supervisors a little bit in Humboldt County. What's your take on that Jimi and how do you think it would change if you went to the board.

Well I would just hope that my level of experience would work on some of the tough issues in Humboldt County. It's not certainly going to be a very easy thing to do. There are some serious tasks say here probably some budget deficit. More work on the water issue. And I think we agreed throughout the campaign that it was going to take a lot of effort to try and retain and sustain our natural resource base and fisheries whether it was ever fishing even tourism. So there's a lot of things going on. I just hope that my extensive background in natural resources is helpful. Ginny Andrea I wanted to ask you a question if you don't mind. Oh yeah. Hi. It looks like you're the one to come back to that. I now just wondering how you felt about that really. Oh I'm excited. Really good mood.

I'm honored. I'm really honored. I had the pleasure over the years to treat wildlife and fisheries to private schools as well. I think this is probably the ultimate honor. That's what happened. Well when you run again in four years I mean a lot of these people are going to be voting in the election so you should you know take heart from that. I did when I was able to talk to the student body over rekeyed the other day. I thought I looked at that audience. Those were exactly my thoughts today. I was up there what was there one of a very serious decision about their life at the end a few years. I expected to be down in that audience on liquor Booker when when they made a decision for not just our parents to Jimmy Smith thanks very much for being with us. We really appreciate your being a part of teen Vote 2000.

We enjoyed it with our. OK thank you. Back to Glenn Iran right now. Thanks Chris. Surprised surprises campaign had to be particularly grueling. When we moved the primary back in presidential years back in March we extended the period of campaigning if there was no winner in March. And of course there had to be a runoff which is occurring tonight and during campus appearances at least in my classes you can see that both of the campaigners said looking a little old warhorse like you know the daily grind of rehashing these issues day after day from March to the present day has had to have been really really tough and last Friday when we had the forum there seemed to be a bit of a tension as as good as the election day came closer and closer and they did look tired. They were a little party there but they got to be thankful but it's almost over. I think also towards the end here it shows that even friends can generate some heat because I think they still were work friends probably still are friends undoubtedly But

first in the campaign I think there was a lot more heat than light they were generated. I was I was surprised that there was that tension. Be quite honest they seemed really really friendly but they didn't shake hands before the forum and that kind of sent me back where your students mind seemed to get closer to the city council issues and see them more directly affecting them down with the supervisor. You have the immediacy of the city council the fact that they're talking about skateparks talking about the after school programs things in the city of Eureka really really excited the students. But issues like trains in and out of you know resource resource jobs that wasn't as exciting for some reason. I think the one issue that really turned my staff aside and really got the conversation going was on medical marijuana and I have to give both candidates credit. They spoke to him directly and they also answer the question of abortion. In my mind. So over your verse.

All thanks very much you guys. We want to take a look at all of our races are as many as we have tabulated at this moment for both the team and of course the regular vote. And Andrew and I here are going to do some tag team analyzing here these results. Let's take a look at the presidential vote still too close to call. We hear of course the Florida and Iowa are up for grabs. Obviously Gore and Bush on the regular voting level Gore won there Gore also won the teen vote issue. Bush came in second. But Nader did very very well which most people expected in Humboldt County next races U.S. Senate. Andrea looks like Feinstein financing Campbell for both the team and Benjamin. And our next race is obviously for Congress district one Mike Thompson a cake walk there for both the teen vote and pretty much mirrored in the regular vote. There are two races with District One. We have Virginia and one in the adult team and some

about county supervisor we just talked to Jimmy Smith obviously teen vote has said now has Voltec committee head of Jimmy Smith on a team level. But on the regular vote it shows Smith is slightly ahead of Jack Benny So we'll have to see how that one goes. I can imagine 30 to the veterans bond that looks like the adults and teens to vote yes for that. And the public employees retirement system it would allow legislators in obviously going down to defeat on both the teen and the regular vote level. All right. Thirty four campaign spending limits. Looks like the adult said that's impossible to measure 35 which would allow private contractors for public works is not being with favorably upon by either teens or regular voters. Here in Humboldt County measure 30 cents the drug treatment programs. It looks like the adults. Yes. That was was the. 37 which is that these are the vote requirement. Obviously it's a little bit of a

split there. It's losing the teen vote and then it's really kind of it's a it's a draw on a regular voting level Maschler said school vouchers one it looks like an adult. You know I just want to mention THIRTY-NINE the final of the eight ballot measures that voters are looking at today in California that 55 percent vote that would replace the two thirds vote basically for school bonds is being approved by both the teens and also by regular voters. Fractionated said a council seat Southbourne it looks like I'm going to go to Stewart possibly months. Time from the far right. And you know for me measure P which is the Arcadia city utility users that's a big measure of beer obviously being favorably looked at by both adults and and the voters tonight. All right.

For Eureka city council want to excite adults but if my boss taxin rebound was the two word for which has Miller and Kerrigan locked it obviously looks like both the teens and the regular voters are going for you Chris Kerrigan which is kind of a surprise there. One election by the way is not part of tomorrow's or not part of tonight's results and that is the tribal race for Tribal chair and also the vice chair. Now California's largest indigenous tribe. Is that your ox. Traditionally they lived along the Klamath River and many are now spread throughout Humboldt Domer counties. The tribal band members will vote tomorrow in their own election at their own polling places at a seminar was held that Humboldt State University a few days ago that focused on the issue of tribal sovereignty. We have a little bit of tape from that we'd like to show that to you right now. Vote for who is the mayor of the city. Everyone gets to vote for who is the supervisor of the county. Everyone gets to vote about who their representatives are to the United States.

Why can't we allow everyone to vote for who is going to be the tribal government. Well it's very clear that they can't vote because they're not private citizens. Only tribal citizens can vote if you go to France you can vote for the elected officials there. If you go to China you get you that you're dealing with essentially a foreign nation with the United States boundaries with have that has their own rules regulations that they have been allowed to control through treaty and is guaranteed by the Constitution as well because the federal government through the advice and consent of the Senate has made provisions for dealing with Indian tribes. And that's the treaty process. Now they added that in 1871 but they still have executive orders and congressional agreements they have settlements that go on in Congress which create Still these reservations are these bounded areas that they try to control.

I'd like to thank everybody involved. I know that the our teams registered a higher rate than teams nationally. 18 year olds are 23 percent were 31 did pretty well. I think it was about building excitement for the teams for the electoral process about getting them into the soap opera and I think this did this and I appreciate the league will voters know I think Channel 13 TV putting this on and hopefully that they'll continue to be involved in the election down the road. Thanks and for the last time back to you Bruce. All right thanks very much. A question that you're getting very good at that. Great towards the other evening there. Want to thank all of you for joining us tonight. Remember many of the people that you saw I interviewed here tonight who were up here with me are the future. So in four years they will be voting for the next president of the United States. Andrea Lovi I want to thank you very much for being with us and on on behalf of everyone here in Quito I also want to thank our student correspondent Suzanne Dunning. Claire Lang no relation by the way. Gary Booker and also Andrea here. Thanks so much for joining us and we'll see you next time

about how to go home and how to really get involved. It's really scary. I know that having a. Good laugh and you know that by somebody we know or at the debates really helped my decision making. And I saw in school always and learning about different. Is. Yeah because I like that. I talked to my mom. We didn't agree on everything. Back on Monday pre-chemo 2000 was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by Pacific Gas and Electric. Additional funding was provided by Mervyn's California absentee Local 16 for various county Barbara Adams Coast Central Credit Union and the members of.

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