Parents Pushing Kids to Vote This Year

Pompey, N.Y. (DIA) – Shannon Cunningham woke up early this morning to vote at the Pompey Hill Fire Department Poll. Pompey says she votes every year without fail.

“It’s so important to vote because this is the time that you have you know to make a little bit of a choice,” Cunningham said.

That’s why she says she brought her son to the polls to start him on the right track at a young age.

“We are teaching my son how important it is to vote,” she said.

Wallen Cunningham is seven years old and is going to the ballot box for the first time to learn something from his mother.

“If you don’t vote you don’t have a chance to say much,” Cunningham said.

She is not the only one who was taught as a kid to vote every year. Kristen Dominger of Pompey says her parents always brought her to the ballot box. Now, her parents are bringing their grandkids to the polls.

“My parents will be here later, and they will be bringing my son because he doesn’t have school today and his is a kindergartener.

But even when kids grow up, parents still have to remind their kids to get out and vote. Parent Steve Steinmatz says he is trying to keep his kids in line.

“I reminded them this morning with a text. They’re in their mid-twenties, so sometimes they slip a little bit,” Steinmatz said.

If you bring your kids don’t forget to give them a sticker too.

Polls close at 9 p.m. in New York.