With the Texas gubernatorial election around the corner, SMU students voice their opinions on the importance of voting in the primaries.
 

The primaries choose the candidates for general election. By voting, citizens can influence the political parties choice for candidate.
 

“For example: I am a minority. [voting] lets politicians know that minorities will vote,” junior history major Lucio Nuñez said. “A politician’s main goal is to get votes. That’s how minorities can get their attention.”
 

The majority of SMU students agree with Nuñez. More than 50 percent of SMU students who took a poll on Feb. 25 agree that voting does make a difference. However, there were some students who disagreed.
 

“It matters to a degree, because the majority always gets what it wants and the minority is not always represented,” senior Anima Nawaz said.
 

Sophomore physics major Grant Gerdan said that the importance of voting varies from state to state.  
 

Gerdan’s friend, Matthew Kortlander, a political science major, said voting always matters because it is the American duty of every citizen.
 

To about 13 percent of students polled the issue is moot.
 

About 26 percent of students thought voting does not make a difference and fewer than 5 percent were undecided.
 

Students will show these opinions Tuesday, either by voting, or watching others go to the booths.

Julius Pickenpack, Joey Richardson and Elena Harding also contributed to this story.