Let’s get high schoolers voting

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Los Angeles: The op-ed by John B. Holebein and D. Sunshine Hillygus makes the great point that apathy is not the driving force behind low youth voter participation rates (“A wish for Super Tuesday,” March 3). It is the lack of an effective legal, administrative and educational structure to help students get involved. Peer-to-peer voter registration in high schools is a critical method for solving this problem. When students help each other register to vote, they energize other students more easily than educators or parents, develop leadership skills, appreciate their own capacity for action, and use their own voices.

States and cities in increasing numbers are supporting this effort with awards or specially designated weeks to promote voter registration. Students are integrating voter registration into the activities of existing clubs. Community groups are organizing to help support them.

More than 3.5 million students graduate from high school every year. In most states, students who will be 18 by November 2020 can register to vote today. If we care about democracy and making sure that the next generation does as well, we should be investing in the infrastructure to support their efforts to participate now. Laura W. Brill, founder and director, The Civics Center

In good health

Manhattan: Coronavirus is a reminder that a strong public health system is needed in this country. It makes no sense to cut public health programs at any level of government. We need more funding for public health and non-profits treating the indigent and uninsured population, not budget cuts. Medicaid payments to huge private nonprofit healthcare systems that only marginally treat those in need the most at the expense of public and private medical institutions that mainly take care of the indigent is unfair. Medicaid dollars should follow where Medicaid patients are. It is critical that we contact our public officials at all levels of government and give them this message. Our lives may depend on it. Ralph Palladino

Generation Angst

Brooklyn: It’s really cool to see all these millennials who care so much about the homeless and immigrants fighting over the last package of gluten-free, organic tofu turkey sausage at the local organic market because they’re worried about the coronavirus. It’s a dangerous place to be right now if you are looking for a bottle of water. Leighton Perkins

Endorsements

West Milford, N.J.: To Voicer James Carroll: What are you implying by asking who

George Soros is backing for the Democratic nomination for president? Just asking: Who are Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman of Saudi Arabia supporting for president of the United States?

Betty E. Weisblum

Worst foot forward

Cranbury, N.J.: I agree with Voicer Stephen A. Silver. The candidates he mentioned — Pete Buttigieg, Cory Booker and Amy Klobuchar — were quality. Unfortunately, in a democracy, there are enough wrong-thinking voters to put a disgrace like Trump in the Oval Office. I hope to God that it doesn’t prove that we don’t deserve better. Ann Solomon

Tearing down the house

Bronx: Donald Trump was elected under false pretenses. He promised to shake up the establishment. Well, he’s certainly shaken it up in a very destructive way, benefiting nobody but himself and his interests. Bernie Sanders is the real iconoclast, threatening to expose and bring down the widespread corruption on Capitol Hill involving politicians of all stripes. The proof of the threat that Sanders poses? Look no further than at all the members of his own party who are speaking out against him, from the Clintons on down. They’re all scared that their days of wine and roses might soon come to an end. Gerald Lebowitz

Innovation

Jamaica: What would happen if Mexico decided to build stairs on their side of Trump’s wall?

Sean A. James

Misogyny’s finest

Las Vegas: You published an op-ed, “No, Elizabeth Warren’s loss isn’t about sexism” (March 5). Seriously, you have a man telling women what is or isn’t sexist? Condescending and disgusting. Sue Russell

Going strong

Princeton Junction, N.J.: I take umbrage with the Daily News’s characterization of Elizabeth Warren dropping out of the 2020 election as “Flop Flop, Fizz Fizz — it’s see ya later, Liz” (March 6). She put up a good fight for the nomination and deserves more credit than a sing-song headline. Warren now has the power to shape the Democratic nomination with her support for either Biden or Sanders. I am looking forward to seeing her “later.”

Judith L. Cabral

Shots fired

Port Jefferson, L.I.: I was so amazed at Chuck Schumer’s tirade with his threatening remarks to two Supreme Court justices and his outrageous come back are that his words were misrepresented! Are you kidding me, Chucky? You made a threat. Can’t take it back. As the old saying goes: The bullet left the gun. I leave you with that. Grace Fornatora

Brooklynites

Staten Island: I too, senator, am from Brooklyn. Born and bred. Don’t insult me or the fine people of Brooklyn with, “That’s the way we talk in Brooklyn.” If your name was John Q. Public instead of Charles Schumer, the U.S. Marshals Service would have you in custody for your threatening “comments.”

Rolly A. Lessin

American Voicers

Bayside: I think it would be a wise move if all politicians from both parties would stop talking for a little while and start listening to the voice of the American people. It is the backbone of this country. Look around you and you’ll see both parties talking at each other and nothing getting done. The Voice of the People should not just be a page in the Daily News.

Bill Caramico

On repeat

Bronx: If you have not read an American history book lately, catch up on these chapters: How and why did World War II come about and end, and how and why did the Joe McCarthy era finally end. There are enablers everywhere today. To allow this to continue is an extremely sorry state of affairs. Let us make sure truth and justice rise to the top.

Mark Benveniste

Mandatory mourning

Long Island City: I respect Kobe Bryant’s wife Vanessa. I know she is a young woman who now sleeps alone in bed crying for her beloved Kobe. I know she could be dating before the year is over. She is young enough to even get married again. Hopefully only after a year goes by though. Why the stipulations? Because she loved Kobe and won’t find another like him. Only a moron would disagree. Steve Chaddock

New problems

AP

Brooklyn: To all the brains that are not there: We have to pay for our paper bags. Great. We can’t use plastic. So what about all the trees we have to cut down to supply the paper bags? Great thinking, idiots.

Rose Soriano