Students push for on-campus voting precincts at CNU, William and Mary
William Parada won’t be a student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg when Virginians help pick the next president of the United States.
But he is leading a push that, if successful, might let his younger peers vote in that 2020 election right on campus, between classes or study sessions. Christopher Newport University student Matthew Godsoe is hoping for the same thing, but at his own school in Newport News.
Godsoe and Parada are the presidents of their respective student chapters of Virginia21, a nonprofit, nonpartisan group that aims to get more students and young professionals to the polls and involved with policymaking decisions.
This past spring, both young men — seniors — started mobilizing their chapters to make voting more accessible for students who might not have time to go off campus on an election day. They’re both devising plans to build student support and present formal plans to their school administrations, hopefully to bring a precinct to their campuses in the next two years.
Read more: http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/va-general-assembly/dp-nws-politics-precincts-college-campus-20180724-story.html
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