College Students Being Targeted For Voter Suppression - Back In My Day If That Happened To Us.....

[global1]

there would be all kinds of protests, sit-ins, marches until we would be able to get that stopped.

Are college students of today doing anything in protest to protect their voting rights? I haven't heard anything - just thinking someone here on DU might know.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

1. I have a college student

and hadn't heard about this - what's up with it?

[global1]

2. Teabaggers Trying To Suppress College Student Votes In Ohio.....

for lack of the dorm room number on their voter registration form.

[HereSince1628]

3. Two things contribute to this.

One is voter caging works on college students. R's know students change addresses often and often don't submit mail forwarding or update their voter registration record. When the r's send mail that gets bounced back to them, they make lists of voters not at an address and challenge these voter's registrations based on bad addresses.

A second contributer is that the model voter ID law used by many states won't accept a college photo ID for voter verification
because, for reasons of campus security, college ID's don't usually include the student's address.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

5. Thanks for the info

I just wanted to make sure there won't be a problem for my daughter, as she is attending college in South Carolina, but all of her info is still Virginia.

She's going to vote absentee in person in Virginia when she comes home for fall break in October, so she'll be able to user her voter ID, but I wanted to make sure there wasn't something weird going on for cases like hers.

[Zalatix]

4. Protests? Naw, people are too scared of the government and the police gangs.

Cue founding fathers' comments about the government being afraid of the people instead of the OTHER WAY AROUND...

[scarletwoman]

6. Since the voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until 1971, I have to ask when this "back in my day" was?

As I recall - I'll be 63 in November - the days of "protest, marches, and sit-ins" were pretty much in the past by 1971.

The Berkeley Free Speech movement happened in '64-'65. The "Summer of Love" was in 1967. The Chicago Democratic Convention police riot was in 1968. The SDS dissolved in 1969.

The radicals of those days weren't much concerned with voting rights - other than the Civil Rights movement - since they were far more focused on challenging the entire establishment structure.

[HereSince1628]

7. I agree, Kent State was 1970, it sort of climaxed the protest of the 1960's era

BUT all of America has not lost it's spirit of protest

There is also this less than 2 years ago: