Recognized as the birthplace of USC basketball and men’s basketball and volleyball, the Galen Center now operates as an official voting center for the 2020 election with usC Athletics and the USC Athletics Black Lives Matter Action Team.
With stadiums around Los Angeles such as Dodger Stadium, Staples Center and Bench of California Stadium opening as polling stations, USC Athletics encouraged some other milestone to help network voting.
“We seek to give our university network and our extended network access to an establishment where others can vote as safely as possible,” said Julie Rousseau, director of the USCABLM Action Team. “Everyone struggles on other tactics in terms of COVID “They had to deal with a certain kind of adversity,” Rousseau said. “But we just wanted to say that we’re here to check and ease the burden a little bit if we can. This is the spirit of the Galen Center offer. “
USC Athletics, and specifically the USCABLM Action Team, played a key role in helping USC supply Galen’s intermediaries as voting intermediaries for the first time After President Carol Folt signed the All-In Campus Democracy Challenge with Pac-12 President Mark Shuken, over 95% of all USC student-athletes registered to vote.
One of the USC United Black Student Student Association’s claims in May not to have a sports activity on Election Day on November 3 was an application received through the Department of Sports.
Rousseau said the UBSAA initiative is a driving motivation to invite athletes and enthusiasts back to the site, once packaged so that adjustment data now serves as a starting point for civic engagement.
“I think the whole country has committed itself to voting, and I think it’s because of social injustice and unrest [when] you think of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery . . . People see the desire to vote because they want to see a change,” Rousseau said. “That’s where the recommendations [to open the Galen Center] emanate from our black student-athletes . . . May our environments be anti-racist, just. This is our goal: to paint on behalf of our student -Athletes. “
Rousseau hopes the Galen Centre will be used beyond the 2020 elections as a sustainable area for long-term civic purposes.
The USC Center for the Political Future worked hand-in-hand with the Los Angeles County Registrar’s Office to inform voting center staff about what it takes to be a voting officer, complete absentee ballots, day-to-day work and obligations, and how to behave well. voting on the coronavirus pandemic.
“Before COVID, many other people had trouble locating their polling stations. [Galen Center] seemed like the best solution,” said Kambiz Akhavan, executive director of the USC Center for the Political Future. “It seemed like a very simple resolution to invest the time and power and all the paintings needed to create a polling station, not only to have the Galen Center as a voting destination, but also to seal it with USC students-athletes and students. This is a component of the story for me. . . When shown at the Galen Center, you may not see anything yet by the Trojans equipping it, which says a lot about USC’s civic commitment. “
Kristy Plaza, director of communications and media at CPF, joined the team to help build engagement among USC voters. Plaza and CPF have created and shared content and partnerships between student organizations such as VoteSC to send data to voters.
“During elections, what other people want are polling places. . . We are making the vital paintings of [other people] and [their] democratic civic duty,” Plaza said. “I don’t think there’s an option not to be concerned about this democratic procedure and make it as productive as possible for our citizens and the USC’s network of paintings on their right to vote. “
Gerane Bailey, a L. A. et former USC member, discovered at galen Center the most convenient position to vote safely.
“We want things to go well for people and to see change,” Bailey said after voting.
USC red blouse guard Aaron Shalexxus voted for the presidency at the Galen Center for the first time on Friday night in hopes of turning his future.
Aaron felt that the Galen Center presented him with the safest position to vote, reflecting on the many examples of voter suppression in the vicinity of the community.
“The Galen Center strictly means a game to us, so that means something so massive in the world and our amenities as a polling station are massive. . . This shows that USC cares,” Aaron said. ” I was very excited about Array. . I quadrupled control [my ballot] just to make sure I was voting for the right person. . . I voted, all of you!”
The Galen Centre will remain open until 8 p. m. on Tuesday, Election Day.
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