VOTING: Students decry lack of accessible information

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More than half of the students who filled out the survey claimed that they could not vote because they were not able to get to their polling place in one way or another. A najority of these students said they needed more education on voting as someone not registered in the county they live in for school and called on their universities to supply them with this information.

Marsita Ferguson, interim director for the Brain Center for Community Engagement, said that the resources that BW offers to students to encourage voting include campaigns that are targeting towards nonvoting students, alternative break trips, tabling to get students registered to vote and events put on by the student organization Jackets Engaged.

“For the students that don’t vote it’s more about barriers and lack of information,”