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Julia McCarthy: Students should be more involved in local elections

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What were you doing on Nov. 3? I’m going to take a wild guess and say you were not in a voting booth casting a vote for the local Los Angeles County elections.

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Julia McCarthy: Students should be more involved in local elections

By Julia McCarthy

Nov. 6, 2015 1:54 a.m.