Despite suppression tactics, young voters are 'raising hell' with historic early voting turnout

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When he prepares to cast his vote in his first-ever presidential election on Tuesday, Noah Foster, a 20-year-old junior at Carroll University in Wisconsin, will go through a mental checklist:

Specialized school ID. Check.

Proof of enrollment. Check.

Proof of residency. Check.

Ride to the polling site. Check.

“It’s exhausting, for sure,” said Foster, who plans to vote for Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the presidential election. “These are the little issues we run into that makes the process so hard.”

From pandemic fears to complex ID requirements to lack of nearby polling places, young voters in the presidential election are facing an unprecedented array of obstacles, activists and voters said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/despite-suppression-tactics-young-voters-are-raising-hell-with-historic-early-voting-turnout/ar-BB1azei0?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=DELLDHP

[soothsayer]

1. Meddlesome kids!

Making good meddling

[tavernier]

2. I asked my 19-year-old grandson who is in college

Whether he has spoken to a lot of kids about the election and if there seems to be an interest in actually voting this year. He said there was a lot of talk and people were definitely going to vote. Sounds like a good sign to me. By the way, he goes to Florida golf Coast University in Fort Myers. And he is very forthright, so if the response had been otherwise, he would’ve said so, like, nope, they have other things to talk about.

[Bettie]

3. At University of Northern Iowa

everyone my two students there talk to are voting, most for Biden.

They figure that is their only hope for anything approaching a future.

[pat_k]

4. The list of "vote subtraction" tactics just keeps growing. (nt)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/10/threat-voter-subtraction/616746/

[crickets]

6. Excellent article; thanks for that. nt

[fierywoman]

5. My teenage violin and viola students are reporting to me as they turn in their ballots and

others lamenting that they missed the age cut-off by two weeks!

[TaylorWilliams]

7. K & R !!!