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Setbacks Dog Push To Tighten College Campus Voting Laws

April 5, 2023 by DC Editors Leave a Comment

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Setbacks Dog Push To Tighten College Campus Voting Laws Enhancing accessibility and inclusivity in voting has been a key area of focus in the United States, with various sectors and governmental bodies endeavoring to expand voting laws to encompass a wider audience. However, some lawmakers have attempted to limit the voting rights of certain age groups. Neil Vigdor discusses this state of affairs in The New York Times. Here is an extract:

Alarmed over young people increasingly proving to be a force for Democrats at the ballot box, Republican lawmakers in a number of states have been trying to enact new obstacles to voting for college students.

In Idaho, Republicans used their power monopoly this month to ban student ID cards as a form of voter identification.But so far this year, the new Idaho law is one of few successes for Republicans targeting young voters.

Attempts to cordon off out-of-state students from voting in their campus towns or to roll back preregistration for teenagers have failed in New Hampshire and Virginia. Even in Texas, where 2019 legislation shuttered early voting sites on many college campuses, a new proposal that would eliminate all college polling places seems to have an uncertain future.

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Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Education, Voter Access, Voter ID, Voter Suppression, Youth Voting Rights

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