jersey won the right to vote in local school board elections, after the city council unanimously passed a coordinates that would allow them to vote started in april. it's the first statewide initiative of its kind, and as the new york times reports, it makes no work at the largest community to expand voting rights to younger assad and since the 26th amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971. immediately, this is the work move will give students of newark more say over what happens in their schools and in their lives. joining us now are two of those students, 16 year old nate esubonteng and breanna campbell, who helped push the newark city council to lower the voting age. there are joined by ryan haygood, president of the new jersey institute for social justice, one of the main organizations that back to this effort. first and foremost, my congratulations to all of you, but i definitely want to speak to you, nate and to you, breanna. talk about in a first, why it