Student Vote Suppression and Dirty Tricks
http://www.flcv.com/studentv.html (sample cases)
Alabama
037592 Stillman College Campus, Hay Center, Huntsville, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, Stillman College is a majority African-American school. Many students registered to vote on campus before October 22 When they showed up at the polling site on campus, students originally from other counties in Alabama were told that they could not vote on campus, and that they had to go back to their original county and file a provisional ballot there. The polling site officials told students from other states that as students, they could not vote in Alabama, and had to go back to their original state to vote
Louisiana
057672 Xavier University Student Union, Baton Rouge, Orleans County, Louisiana, 85+ students signed sheets complaining of long lines and waits for 7+ hours
061132 New Orleans Public Library, Students and faculty are being kept in line to vote - several hundred people - while other voters are admitted to vote with no delay. Voter goes to Dillard University.
041439 Mini-dome, Southern University A&M College Campus, Baton Rouge, La. Students being denied access to polling site, denied even provisional ballots. Her daughter, a student at Southern @ BR, and other SU students were told by Comm. Patrice Bickham that they should have gone home to vote. It happened to 1, 000
New Jersey Hundreds, perhaps thousands of students at Rutgers University thought they were registered only to find that they weren't on the rolls and could only vote provisionally. Many colleges are reporting the same problem.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=373043708 Essex County, NJ, Voter and others were turned away without being given the chance to cast a provisional ballot. They were referred to the superior court at Rutgers, where: no parking was available; officers ticketed aggressively for improper parking; and state troopers set up a checkpoint
Maryland
Hundreds of student voters at the University of Maryland, College Park, were turned away because they had been improperly registered by a campus organization. Students lined up at the Stamp Student Union, many to cast their first vote. But once inside, many were told their registrations weren't processed properly because the paperwork for 500 new voters never made it to the Board of Elections.
http://www.votersunite.org/article.asp?id=3685041535 Stamps Student Union @ Univ. of MD, Potomac, Prince George's County , Maryland, Stood in long lines, missed classes & still unable to vote
Ohio
052560 Gambier, Knox County, Ohio, At Kenyon College there were only 2 voting booths. One student was in line for 10 1/2 hours. At 12:30 pm last night students were still in line. Polling officials were pushing provisional ballots to shorten the line. Wants this investigated. Caller also reported a shortage of voting machines in Democratic areas
Florida
016562 10/28/04, 1:30 AM PST Other Pinellas County, Florida, Callers daughter is a student at the University of Florida. She was approached, on campus, by a group asking her to support a change in the state child molestation laws. After signing the forms they gave her she discovered that they had switched her voter registration from Democrat to Republican (this happened at most Universities in Florida)
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