Teens allowed to vote in Oakland school board elections with Measure QQ passage

by Keith Burbank, Bay City News November 4, 2020November 4, 2020

Supporters of Measure QQ thanked voters in a message posted to the campaign's website Wednesday. (Image courtesy of oaklandyouthvote.org)

It looks as if 16- and 17-year-old students in Oakland schools will have a voice when it comes time to elect school board members, according to unofficial election results late Tuesday night.

Measure QQ, which was passing by a wide margin, gives them a voice provided the City Council adopts an ordinance allowing it.

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Keith Burbank, Bay City News

Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.

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