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September 08, 2008

NYTimes: Efforts by local officials to block student voting rights

nvp.png Today's New York Times has a story Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences by Tamar Lewin on the latest skirmishes between local voter registrars and students attempting to assert their well-established rights to choose to register and vote where they go to school, instead of where their parents live. The story features PIRG's Sujatha Jahagirdar:

“There’s no issue for snowbirds who live in Iowa but fly to Florida for the winter,” said Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director of the Student Public Interest Research Group’s New Voters Project. “One demographic group, like students, shouldn’t have to overcome a special hurdle to vote. We impose all the responsibilities of citizenship on students, and we have to provide them with the privileges of citizenship, too.”
The PIRGs have registered millions of voters in non-partisan voter registration drives over the years and have also initiated legal actions, when necessary, to defend students' right to vote at school. This Brennan Center policy brief explains some of the issues.

Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at September 8, 2008 08:48 AM


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