For Many Students, Electoral Enthusiasm Runs up against Barriers to Voting

Autor/in	Lipka, Sara
Titel	For Many Students, Electoral Enthusiasm Runs up against Barriers to Voting
Quelle	In: Chronicle of Higher Education, 54 (2008) 21, (1 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-5982
Schlagwörter	Voting; Elections; Civil Rights; Political Campaigns; Political Candidates; College Students; Iowa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abstimmung; Election; Wahl; Bürgerrechte; Grundrechte; Zivilrecht; Collegestudent
Abstract	Stories of transient students missing deadlines or being misled about their voting rights are nothing new. But this year, the role younger voters played in Barack Obama's win in Iowa's Democratic presidential primary seems to have motivated a wave of college students in other states. Some of those students--and the campaigns courting them--are out of luck. The deadlines for more than two-thirds of the Super Tuesday states, which vote February 5, have already passed. But organizations that register, educate, and protect student voters are redoubling their efforts this election cycle. Advocacy groups are lobbying for laws--like Election Day registration--that favor student voters. Meanwhile, partisan and nonpartisan groups are running campus registration drives with increasingly sophisticated tactics. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10