Block the Vote - College Edition

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As jms mentioned, this election will be decided on demographics.

Which is why the Republican Party-ALEC has put so much effort, in the past 2 years, into restricting voting rights targeting particular demographics, by changing laws and eliminating many currently-allowable forms of voter ID.

It is estimated that up to 7 million legal American voters will not be allowed to vote this election because of this.

Voter ID Laws Take Aim At College-Student Voters

In Tennessee, a new law requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls explicitly excludes student IDs.

In Wisconsin, college students are newly disallowed from using university-provided housing lists or corroboration from other students to verify their residence.

Florida's reduction in early voting days is expected to reduce the number of young and first-time voters there.

And Pennsylvania's voter identification bill, still on the books for now, disallows many student IDs and non-Pennsylvania driver's licenses, which means out-of-state students may be turned away at the polls.

In 2008, youth voter turnout was higher that it had been since Vietnam, and overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. This time around, the GOP isn't counting solely on disillusionment to keep the student vote down.

In the last two years, Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed dozens of bills that erect new barriers to voting, all targeting Democratic-leaning groups, many specifically aimed at students.

The GOP's stated rationale is to fight voter fraud. But voter fraud -- and especially in-person fraud which many of these measures address -- is essentially nonexistent.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1791568.html