To unlock the youth vote in 2020, Democrats wage legal fights against GOP-backed voting restrictions
To unlock the youth vote in 2020, Democrats wage legal fights against GOP-backed voting restrictions
By Amy Gardner at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/to-unlock-the-youth-vote-in-2020-democrats-wage-legal-fights-against-gop-backed-voting-restrictions/2019/07/10/f3c51dd4-8e17-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html?utm_term=.d5a71cb91802
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Maggie Flaherty was so upset that she was too young to cast a ballot against Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election that one of her first missions when she arrived as a freshman at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire the following year was to register to vote.
Then the California native learned about a new proposal from state Republicans that would subject college students who vote in the state to residency requirements such as getting in-state driver’s licenses and vehicle registrations.
“That costs money,” said Flaherty, who along with a classmate and the American Civil Liberties Union sued the state after the law passed. “And I don’t think it should cost money to be able to vote.”
The fight in New Hampshire is one of at least a dozen legal skirmishes being waged across the country, in the run-up to the 2020 election, that are financed by Democrats and liberal activists who hope to overturn or head off measures they fear could erode the electoral might of young voters — an increasingly left-leaning voting bloc.
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