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...their long-term legislative goals, which include facilitating student-voter registration both on Election Day and far in advance of it through high school civics classes, as well as more consistent guidelines to help registrars do their jobs and ensure that students get to vote. Says Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director of the Student Public Interest Research Group's New Voters Project: "It's a civil rights issue...
...identification card. People without one of these were required to produce a birth certificate or passport—documents the authors felt students from out of state would not typically have with them. “It’s really blatant disenfranchisement,” said Sujatha Jahagirdar, program director for the New Voters Project. No form of identification is necessary to register to vote in Massachusetts. Any U.S. citizen aged 18 or older can register by filling out a form that can be requested online or obtained at a public library, post office, or election commission office...
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