{"id":106693,"date":"2022-07-20T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=106693"},"modified":"2022-07-20T14:51:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T18:51:22","slug":"city-of-terrace-hopes-to-increase-youth-voting-interest-with-kidvote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/city-of-terrace-hopes-to-increase-youth-voting-interest-with-kidvote\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Terrace hopes to increase youth voting interest with KidVote"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Terrace is working to increase participation in the upcoming municipal elections by approving two motions, including a program to engage young people and the the opening of a second voting station.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At a recent city council meeting, Corporate Administrator Alisa Thompson provided a report that outlined the costs of four possible motions to expand voter participation.<\/span><\/p>\n

This report follows a committee of the whole meeting where Thompson proposed the initial idea of a KidVote, and was then asked to develop a more detailed proposal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Two of the proposals were denied by council due to cost and effectiveness not being sufficient.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the two motions that went forward focus on developing early interest in voting for children, as well as improving accessibility to be able to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson's original idea for a KidVote has been approved by the council and will consist of giving kids ballots of their own to fill outside alongside their families. <\/span>Although these ballots won\u2019t give kids the option to vote on candidates, it will give them the chance to vote on issues that are relevant to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thompson was inspired with this idea when hearing about a school in Vancouver that did a student vote to inspire kids to get involved with their local government and show them the importance of voting as a whole.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to give the entire family a chance to vote, council also elected to open a second voting station.\u00a0<\/span>Planned to be located in a school in the Keith Estates area of town, residents in this area will now have easier access to a voting station.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both of these projects are a first for the city, and will be observed as possible assets in future elections.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the radio story below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Terrace is working to increase participation in the upcoming municipal elections by approving two motions, including a program to engage young people and the the opening of a second voting station.\u00a0 At a recent city council meeting, Corporate Administrator Alisa Thompson provided a report that outlined the costs of four possible motions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":106704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225],"tags":[4611,16945,16944,1604,827,984,5815],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106741,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106693\/revisions\/106741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106693"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=106693"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=106693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}