Student group helped in defeating Wandgaard

Members of a student group, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES), which is affiliated with Voices de la Frontera, canvas throughout the inner-city and helped to turnout record number of African Americans and Hispanic to the poll.  The group, along with other GOTV organizers can share in the victory of democracy 21^st District Senator John Lehman win over incumbent Senator Van Wanggaard.   

In the daily paper Wanggaard claims, “Over 70,000 people voted yesterday in a historic election. We know that there are a number of outstanding absentee ballots, voting irregularities, and that there were problems across the county in the unofficial tally of ballots.”