Colleges on Notice: Helping to Register Voters Is the Law

By JEFFREY SELINGO

Boston

A little-noticed provision in a federal higher-education law that requires colleges to make a "good-faith effort" to provide voter-registration materials to students is about to get a lot more attention, if politically active students have their way. They started their work last week at the Democratic National Convention here.

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