Local Politics · Greensboro, NC
Hundreds of students at North Carolina A&T State University walked approximately 40 minutes from campus to the nearest early polling site on Oct. 22, where nearly 370 voters cast ballots, according to Guilford County election data. Students at NC A&T, Western Carolina University, and UNC Greensboro, along with a college Democrats group, filed a federal lawsuit in January against state and county election officials over the absence of early voting sites on their campuses for midterm primaries. A federal judge denied the plaintiffs' request for a temporary injunction in February, citing precedent against intervening in state election laws near an election. Jason Tyson, director of external affairs at the North Carolina State Board of Elections, said the schools did not host midterm early voting sites in previous years and that county election boards determined polling locations were not needed on those campuses.
Local Politics · Greensboro, NC
Hundreds of North Carolina A&T State University students marched from campus to the nearest early polling site in Greensboro on Oct. 22, where nearly 370 voters cast ballots, according to Guilford County election data. Students at NC A&T, Western Carolina University, and UNC-Greensboro filed a federal lawsuit in January challenging the lack of on-campus early voting sites; a federal judge denied their injunction request in February. In Arlington, Texas, local election officials removed the University of Texas Arlington as a polling site, requiring students to walk about 20 minutes to a courthouse during early voting and Election Day. In New Hampshire, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a state law banning student IDs as proof of identity at the polls.
Local Politics · Greensboro, NC
Hundreds of North Carolina A&T State University students marched 40 minutes from campus to the nearest early polling site in Greensboro on Oct. 22, where nearly 370 voters cast ballots, according to Guilford County election data. Students at NC A&T, Western Carolina University, and UNC Greensboro filed a federal lawsuit in January against state and county election officials over the lack of campus early voting sites; a federal judge denied their injunction request in February. In Arlington, Texas, local election officials removed the University of Texas at Arlington as a polling site last year, requiring students to walk about 20 minutes to a courthouse. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld New Hampshire's law banning student IDs as proof of identity at the polls.
