Students Face HUGE Obstacles When Voting

Written by: Sarahkatheryn on Oct 24, 2008 12:45 AM EDT

This morning Matthew Segal from the Student Association for Voter Empowerment was on CNN talking about some of the challenges Students face and the rights that need to be protected for young voters. He also addresses the atrocious actions by the County Clerk in Virginia and El Paso, Colorado who attempted to disenfranchise students, and fliers that are geared to suppress the youth vote.

Segal who is younger than me, if you can believe it, is making the rounds talking about the unique challenges that youth face both in getting registered to vote and casting ballots on Election Day. Students who go to school out of state must choose between the state they left and their new state. Many who spend 9 months or more a year in school in the state, work there, pay taxes there, but for reasons passing in understanding are not considered by many to be "real" residents. This occurred in El Paso, Colorado and at Virginia Tech just last month. Government officials knowingly lied to students in efforts to disenfranchise thousands of students. It is unclear why there is not an investigation into this matter and these actions.

But Segal says it better here:

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Location: Washington , DC