This Election Day, students across the nation are organizing walkouts at 10 a.m. local time in each time zone.
The aim: to get more young voters out to the polls and show that the student movement that began in the wake of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla. this year can impact the ballot box.
YR Media has been tracking the walkouts all morning on Twitter, and here’s some of what we’ve seen so far:
take a walk, go for a drive, carpool with a friend, do what you gotta do to go and out and vote today! make sure your voice is heard! pic.twitter.com/JTDeK94Mec
— Cait (@caitlyn_leona) November 6, 2018
Georgetown Walk to the Polls
More from @realcpaz at Georgetown University: This is Elliot Mack, a freshman at Georgetown. He participated in a walk to the polls event as a first time voter. #WalkoutToVote #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/bPLYjS9aRu
— YR Media (@itsYRmedia) November 6, 2018
…And now she's got the sticker to prove it. #ElectionDay #WalkoutToVote pic.twitter.com/tXB9dCZpOb
— YR Media (@itsYRmedia) November 6, 2018
“There are so many people who fought for my right to vote. I think about the Civil Rights Movements and things that people suffered through … things that were set up to prevent black people from voting. … I think it’s a waste to not vote.” pic.twitter.com/YBdUBCpoTB
— YR Media (@itsYRmedia) November 6, 2018
#WalkoutToVote
Shorewood high school students getting ready to #WalkoutToVote pic.twitter.com/VKXaJ8iH4N
— Vote November 6th (@claudia_delgadi) November 6, 2018
Too young to vote? Get a sticky note or piece of paper and write “I VOTE NEXT” and take a picture with it, then DM to us!#WalkOutToVote #TurnoutTuesday
— MFOL Texas (@MFOLTX) November 6, 2018
#WalkoutToVote @50milesmore Shorewood High School, Shorewood, WI, Walkout organizing team! pic.twitter.com/0FxREICupB
— Chuck Carlson (@Moedog97) November 6, 2018
Shorewood high school students arriving to the polls!#WalkoutToVote pic.twitter.com/D8jqPUuhNc
— Vote November 6th (@claudia_delgadi) November 6, 2018
Here at Reed Intermediate School in Newtown encouraging voters to #VOTE to #EndGunViolence. #WalkOutToVote pic.twitter.com/QRhtETt7ny
— Jr. Newtown Action Alliance (@Junior_NAA) November 6, 2018