The Chronicle of Higher Education
ELECTION 2004

The Battle Over the Booth

Students organize challenges to restrictive voting laws in an effort to increase election turnout

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL and ERIC HOOVER

In the story of Americans' decreasing participation in elections, college students wear the scarlet A, for apathy.

But civic sloth is not the only explanation for why a majority of students do not vote. Sometimes...

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