Jasmine Stephens, Radford University, VA

Jasmine Stephens, a junior at Radford University, starts off the interview with a big smile.  She is majoring in Sports Medicine with a concentration in Physical Therapy, and she is very excited to be able to vote in this election.  She has registered to vote absentee, as home is a two-and-a-half-hour drive away, and she knows she will have to be in class on Election Day.  She's not concerned that her absentee ballot might not be counted: "...this is going to be, like, the biggest election ever.  I think that they are going to count the absentee ballots.  I heard that they weren't, but I'm pretty sure that they will."

"It's important to register to vote because, I mean, your vote really counts. Like, you as an individual, that's a privilege that you were granted..."  She is thrilled to have the opportunity to help choose the next leader of the country.  "Being that I am an African American woman, I think that it is important for me to register to vote, and for other African American students to vote, because we weren't granted that privilege years ago.  So now that we are, I think that we should definitely take advantage of it."

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