Posted on 03/01/2020 6:35:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
MEMPHIS - - Vanderbilt University student Will Newell wishes it was easier for college students like him to cast ballots in Tennessee, one of 14 states holding a presidential primary on Super Tuesday.
The campus has no locations for early voting, so students must visit an off-campus polling location to cast a ballot on Election Day. Newell drives but worries that many students who don’t have their own transportation won’t make it to a precinct. He said some campus groups offer rides to students, but the university itself does not provide a shuttle.
He supports a bill introduced in the Tennessee Legislature that would require early voting locations at large colleges and universities in the state. That’s not the only restriction working against college students in the state. Tennessee, where overall voter turnout is low, is among several states that does not allow a college student ID. But it does allow a handgun license.
As Democratic candidates seek a boost from young voters in 2020, their impact at the polls could be blunted in a number of states that make voting more difficult for college students. Those include laws related to voter IDs, residency requirements and on-campus polling places. Critics say many of those laws are designed to dampen turnout among voters who typically lean Democratic.
College groups aligned with the Democratic Party are mobilizing this year in an effort to defeat President Donald Trump’s re-election, said Matt Nowling, national director of communications for the College Democrats of America.
“Republicans see that and they’re scared,” said Nowling, a junior at Denison University in Granville, Ohio. “College Democrats have been at the forefront of fighting against these issues.”
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Perhaps this is because college students appear to be the least educated in the land. (Note, I said “educated”, not “indoctrinated”.)
Boo Hoo. Anyone with a job has to jump through hoops to vote because the polls close before they can get there. They have to wait in line during lunch hour or take time off to vote. College students have a much easier time voting than the average working person, getting to a polling place two miles away isn’t that hard.
Does he reside in Tennessee?
You mean they treat them as if they are not “residents”?
These kids are idiots.
We have tried to fix the problem of students from New York and New Jersey voting in New Hampshire, with some success - and by how loud it makes the Democrats squeal, it seems to be working.
F'n AP. Perhaps it is because foreign students have student IDs and carry licenses are given to citizens of age.
One more thought, to the poor college students, get off your lazy asses and find away to the polls, after all, you should be smart enough to figure out a way.
Tenn has absentee balloting by mail, and any student at a school outside the county of registration is eligible to vote via that manner.
https://sos.tn.gov/products/elections/absentee-voting#2
There’s a new invention called the absentee ballot. Perhaps AP could look into it. Of course then they would “write” that states are making it hard to vote by not providing postage stamps.
Once again we encounter youths who, having been given almost everything, want more because they need the convenience? What is to prevent them from voting where their actual HOME is? You know, the one that is where their taxes are paid from, on their driving licenses and medical records?
For that matter, how can it be detected if they were to vote, by accident of course, in both? Would that get them disciplined in their college? Or awarded for their dedication?
Many are likely students from out of state, who intend to cast an absentee ballot back home from Mom’s address and also vote in person as a resident from their dorm address. Leftists luxuriate in activist students so much that they hold voter registrations on campus, with the intent to also contaminate local elections by introducing the out of state pathogens.
It’s only news because the Democrats are favored by younger voters whose minds change over time.
I was going to mention that, but wanted to be succinct. That’s what I used when I was in college, primarily because as much as I liked college, I didn’t consider it home.
I have talked to students who boasted that that they voted here in FL, and yet have voted in their own state as well. All of them who I have talked to went to FSU, and University of FL.
They should be double checked and prosecuted to the full extent of the law for their voter fraud.
If an out of state student can vote at college, does the act of voting mean he can avoid the out of state tuition penalty?
They don’t know how to put a stamp on a letter and mail it at the Post Office. Brain dead morons.
They don’t even know where to buy a stamp so I’m not surprised.
If collich students can’t figure out how to vote,how to they all get A’s? in their courses?
Are these campuses on lock-down? I must presume so since leaving them is so burdensome for these students. I have to leave my house to vote. How is that fair!!!
Colleges are now 35% to 65% foreigners.
I smell illegal foreign voting at colleges.
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