Stafford School Wins Voter Registration Challenge

STAFFORD, VA—If you head out to the polls today or tonight, June 11, to vote in Virginia's primary centered elections, some of your fellow voters may well be there because of the efforts of a group of students from Brooke Point High School at 1700 Courthouse Road.

That's because for the third consecutive year, the school won the annual Governor's High School Voter Registration Challenge. Brooke Point registered 70 percent of its eligible seniors to vote. With the support of Inspire U.S. a national nonpartisan organization, along with principal Tammy Houk and teachers Shylo Seaman and Patrick Holshouser, the students' efforts were recognized by Virginia's Secretary of Administration Keyanna Conner.

Said recent graduate Jeffrey Truong in a release: "Knowledge is power, and when students are informed of voting and the power that it holds, they achieve so much more by actually going out and expressing their views."

Added Seaman, an advisor for the school's Inspire BP Club: "[Young people] have the ability to make changes, and it's so important that they understand that they are crucial."