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This is the first year that early voting centers are open in California, and a group that is working to reach every young adult in Los Angeles County 鈥� and 100,000 throughout the state 鈥� is holding an early-vote party Wednesday that will draw hundreds of Los Angeles high schoolers.

Students from seven L.A. high schools will be among about 400 young people who are already registered and pre-registered to vote in the upcoming elections who will cast their ballots at the event. in California are for and .

The is hosted by in partnership with the L.A. Unified School District and the Los Angeles County Registrar鈥檚 office in Norwalk, where the event will take place. Students will hear from community leaders, including L.A. Unified鈥檚 board president, M贸nica Garc铆a. There will also be mobile game centers, art-making stations, and voter education activities for the students before and after they cast their ballots.

L.A. Unified is promoting civic engagement and get-out-the-vote efforts outlined in a school board that also declared a last month, when students were able to pre-register and register to vote. Since 2015, 16- and 17-year-olds in California have been able to , and a new this year automatically registers teens 16 and up to vote when they get their driver鈥檚 license or state ID card.

The event is part of the efforts of Power California, a statewide civic engagement organization, to mobilize young voters of color ahead of the midterms. In partnership with other community organizations across the state, it aims to reach 100,000 youth in California this fall, including all 52,000 young people ages 18 to 24 in Los Angeles County.

鈥淲e鈥檙e pretty excited because almost two-thirds of them will vote for the first time this November. We will be calling every young person in L.A. and Orange County, the Central Valley and Riverside. And we鈥檙e going to do it!鈥� said Luis S谩nchez, co-founder of Power California.

This year, with funding from The California Endowment, Power California commissioned a of more than 2,000 young people of color in the state between the ages of 16 and 24 about their civic engagement. The survey results show that 72 percent of 18-to-24-year-olds say they will 鈥渄efinitely鈥� vote in November, and 82 percent said voting makes a difference.

According to the organization, studies show that if young people vote in two consecutive elections, they are more likely to become voters for life.

The issues that matter the most to them are immigration, housing, the environment, and , the survey found. Half the respondents consider themselves part of the Black Lives Matter movement, LGBTQ Equality, and Undocumented and Unafraid social movements.

L.A. County will open early voting centers at for the next two weekends.

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