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ERIC Number: EJ786616
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Feb-1
Pages: 1
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-5982
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For Many Students, Electoral Enthusiasm Runs up against Barriers to Voting
Lipka, Sara
Chronicle of Higher Education, v54 n21 pA21 Feb 2008
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.
Chronicle of Higher Education. 1255 23rd Street NW Suite 700, Washington, DC 20037. Tel: 800-728-2803; e-mail: circulation@chronicle.com; Web site: http://chronicle.com/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Iowa
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