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...think that’s inspiring to a lot of people.” Green trained IOP members in proper voter registration etiquette and eligibility before they traveled door-to-door on Saturday. Green said that people commonly mistake voter eligibility requirements, incorrectly believing that a convicted felon cannot vote. In Massachusetts, the individual can vote as long as he or she has served time. According to IOP Community Action Chair David T. Tao ’11, the training was crucial. “People don’t like other people just showing up at their doors?...
...American citizen and could register to vote, I would be concerned. I would be calling my local elections office and printing a Massachusetts voter registration form in anticipation of the deadline tomorrow. I would do this because states across the country are lost in bureaucratic labyrinths before the vote on November 4—and they risk losing us with them...
...With nine million new voters in America this election season, one would think elections offices would have plenty of work adding people to their voter rolls and sending out absentee ballots. In fact, attempts to comply with the 2002 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) have had egregious consequences. At least nine states have been found to accidentally and illegally remove voters from their lists. Moreover, increasingly strict identification requirements are holding up registrations and absentee ballots for unknown thousands of people...
...Generally speaking, it’s safe to say that voting for college students is a genuine ordeal. Jetting home on Election Day is usually not an option, so we must either register to vote at college or vote absentee back home. This means worrying where our registration should be, navigating forms, deadlines, the occasional photocopy or notarization, and finally digging up the right address and that elusive 42-cent stamp...
...voter registering by mail, a problem that disproportionately affects college students. If the election office can’t contact the voter issuing a “flagged” application, he is either not added to the rolls (in states like Florida and Iowa) or has to vote by provisional ballot. That’s assuming that the flagged form is even processed before Election Day. When you add a college student’s need to vote absentee, the procedure gets even murkier...