How does the U.S. help young voters?
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrase “sga”.
Summary
- This Johns Hopkins News-Letter article examines how U.S. voting policies affect college students and how campuses support student voting.
- The article says that all states let out-of-town residents request and submit absentee ballots, while tools such as TurboVote provide voting reminders.
- The paper reported that a 1979 Supreme Court case reaffirmed students’ right to establish residency and vote where they attend school.
- According to the article, three Furman University students challenged extra voting requirements in 2016, and their court victory was followed by a six-percent increase in student turnout.
- The reporter writes that a New Hampshire law requiring permanent residency, state identification and registered vehicles could block college students from voting where they attend school.
- The article adds that a local Republican official opposed reopening a polling place near Texas State University because it “probably means that it is going to favor the Democrats.”
- The News-Letter reported that buses to the polls were being organized by the Center for Social Concern and SGA, while IDEAL helped coordinate absentee-ballot parties at Hopkins.