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Phillips attributed the problems to a swell in new voters overwhelming the system, which exposed the problems in the existing registration and absentee ballot processes...
...recommendations focus primarily on changing the absentee ballot system. They asked for the creation of uniform application deadlines nationwide, and the elimination of requirements for first-time voters, dubbed “marooned” voters, who in certain states are required either to register or vote in person...
...decided to investigate absentee ballot issue after receiving a large number of inquiries on their website and hearing about more difficulties during November’s presidential election. The information they received came from Harvard as well as 18 other universities from across the country...
Phillips said some of the stories were extreme enough to merit investigation: one student, who had registered when he was eighteen, led efforts to increase voter registration at his high school, and even voted in previous elections, was told he had never registered when he applied for his absentee ballot...
...also a Crimson editor, publicized her difficulties with voting in her monthly column in The Miami Herald. The column, entitled, “This is No Way to Treat an Eager First-Time Voter,” included an account of her numerous failed attempts to have her absentee ballot sent to her Harvard address...