Background: The Continental Youth Assembly (CYA) represents young people's interest through members in the United States. (https://domeye.wixsite.com/cya-us)
The CYA has established a Youth Constitution, Youth Government, Youth Congress, and on September 30th, 2020 young people from all across the United States will be invited to participate in the first ever Youth Elections, to elect a Youth Government of the United States. The Youth Elections will include a Youth President, Youth Senate, and House of Youth Representatives.
This is in response to the lack of youth representation in government. The elected youth government will commence in January 2021. (https://sites.google.com/view/youth-elections/home)
The CYA established, the Commission on Ratification & Elections (CORE) for the 2020 Youth Elections. CORE has set up a Federal Electronic Filing System (FEFS), it is to provide a much needed service to potential Youth Elections 2020 candidates and the public.
On August 1st, the 2020 Youth Elections season will kickoff with the FEFS filing website. It has established a registration and filing for candidacy, which will begin August 1st, 2019 - May 1st, 2020. It contains 2 forms: Form 1 is Statement of Organization and Form 2 is Statement of Candidacy. (https://filingsystems.us)
The maximum age that a person can seek a election to any elected official in the Youth Government is up to 29 years to age. The elections are the following:
"On January 9th, 2019 the Continental Youth Assembly apportioned 250 house seats. The election will be held on September 30, 2020. Members of this chamber serve a 2 year term, beginning on January 4th, 2021.
Pursuant to the Youth Constitution of the United States, the number of total seats in the Youth Senate will be 100, and each state will receive two seats. The election will be held on September 30, 2021. Members of this chamber will have a four year term, beginning on January 4th, 2021.
Elections will be held to elect a Youth President (President of the Youth Government) on September 30, 2020. This office will have a term of 4 years, beginning on January 30th, 2021." (https://sites.google.com/view/youth-elections/elections)
Finally as the CYA has previously said before, "the Youth Constitution was established to respond to both the lack of representation included in the US Constitution, and to provide young people with a way to assemble and represent their interests. The Youth Constitution provides that there be national elections to elect a Youth Government to represent young people in the United States. This "Youth Government" is mostly modeled after the United States Government, but responds to the demands of young people. In order to protect their rights, young people must have an elected national body to represent them. The youth government will be modeled after the now-disbanded American Youth Congress." (https://sites.google.com/view/youth-elections/about)
*Note you can see the CYA's, Youth Constitution here: (https://sites.google.com/view/youth-elections/about/youth-constitution)
And here is the 250 House of Youth Representatives District Maps that is near completion: (https://filingsystems.us/district-map)
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