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Despite widespread and continuing national concerns about election integrity, it’s clear that county registrars of voters in California the heroes of the 2020 election made sure every vote was counted. Photos by Lew Griswold; courtesy of Jeannette Logue; Ron Holman, Visalia Times Delta
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Despite continuing national concerns about election integrity, it’s clear that California’s county registrars of voters the heroes of the 2020 election made sure every vote was counted.
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Voters exit Avenal High School in Kings County on November 3, 2020. Photo by Clara Mokri for CalMatters
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Raymiro Gomez-Galiano knocked on more than a thousand doors in Santa Clarita for the March primary, urging Latinos and other infrequent voters to turn out.
Just 17, the teen couldn’t even vote yet.
“I made sure to send people out there to vote on my behalf. That’s something that we all have the power to do,” said the teen, a volunteer with the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights based in Los Angeles.
Sean Powers is Georgia Public Broadcasting's first director of podcasting. He joined GPB in 2014 as a producer/reporter with On Second Thought, and remained with the program until 2018.