Republicans Trying To Suppress The Younger Vote

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Students at the historically Black Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas, lost their on-campus polling place this semester after the Republican-dominated state legislature outlawed polling places that do not stay open for the entire 12-day, early-voting period — commonly referred to as “pop-up” polls. The new law took effect in September, and Huston-Tillotson students who voted on November 5 had to trek over to the Austin Public Library’s Carver Branch a half-mile away

“The way I see it is disenfranchisement upon students of color,” says Jared Breckenridge, a senior majoring in education and the former president of the university’s NAACP chapter. The loss of the campus polling place, he says, comes on top of other barriers Huston-Tillotson students regularly face as they navigate the state’s voter ID law, which doesn’t allow them to use their student ID cards to cast a ballot.

Along with Huston-Tillotson’s polling place, Austin Community College, which has a diverse student body of 72,000 mostly low-income students, lost polling places across nine of its 11 campuses. Other campuses across the state also took major hits, with six polling places shuttered at colleges in Fort Worth, and two shuttered in the border town of Brownsville.

It’s not only happening in Texas. 

Republican lawmakers across the country are erecting new barriers to keep students from the voting booth precisely because young people, who lean heavily to the left, are beginning to flex their electoral power in force: College student turnout more than doubled from 2014 to 2018, according to numberstracked by Tufts University’s Institute for Democracy & Higher Education.

Issues like the climate emergency and Trump’s attacks on vulnerable communities motivated 40.3 percent of 10 million students tracked by Tufts to vote during the 2018 midterm election, surpassing even the overall increase in the national turnout rate. With 20 million students enrolled at colleges and universities across the U.S., this young and diverse population is emerging as a crucial voting bloc that could potentially determine the outcome of the 2020 general election.

Republican lawmakers are taking these numbers seriously. In response, they are impeding voting eligibility for out-of-state students, outlawing pop-up and early voting sites, and enacting increasingly strict requirements on student IDs under the guise of preventing “electoral fraud” (which is practically nonexistent) in Republican-controlled, presidential battleground states.

Source: https://truthout.org/articles/more-students-are-voting-but-republicans-are-trying-to-get-in-their-way/

[Marilyn MonHoe 11,011]

The only way Republicans can win elections is by doing crap like this. They hate democracy and will try to impede people from voting because they know that high voter turnout works in favor of Democrats.

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I wonder what it means that the older demographic are Republicans and the younger demographic are Democrats... it has to mean something... 

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Republicans and old men are good for one thing and one thing only

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Money

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Also, of course it's in Texas. 

The younger vote is important here, especially for Democrats. This, combined with the fact that people from traditionally liberal states are moving here, is the reason why Texas has become more of a purple state (though, there is still a definite Republican majority). 

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12 minutes ago, Loeppke said:

I wonder what it means that the older demographic are Republicans and the younger demographic are Democrats... it has to mean something... 

I mean, is that a surprise though? It's why Sanders is doing the best among young people. With campaign promises like cleaning up the enivornment, Medicare for all, and free college tuition, it's easy to see why younger people would support him (and overall, the Democratic party). 

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4 minutes ago, M Monstre said:

I mean, is that a surprise though? It's why Sanders is doing the best among young people. With campaign promises like cleaning up the enivornment, Medicare for all, and free college tuition, it's easy to see why younger people would support him (and overall, the Democratic party). 

No it's not a surprise but I'm sure there's a deeper underlying meaning that I'm missing as to why it is that way. Unless the simplest reason being that older people were raised with a different upbringing than younger people. 

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6 minutes ago, M Monstre said:

Also, of course it's in Texas. 

The younger vote is important here, especially for Democrats. This, combined with the fact that people from traditionally liberal states are moving here, is the reason why Texas has become more of a purple state (though, there is still a definite Republican majority). 

Yup. It’s happening all over the country, the article details what they’re doing in other states.

As much as I don’t like liberals, Republicans are completely repugnant and vile.

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Just now, Loeppke said:

No it's not a surprise but I'm sure there's a deeper underlying meaning that I'm missing as to why it is that way. Unless the simplest reason being that older people were raised with a different upbringing than younger people. 

As in why are younger people more likely to be liberal, and why older people are more likely to be conservative?

I really do think it's as simple as how people are raised and how society has changed over the years. With older people, society was much less accepting and much more conservative before than it is now, which is largely why they have conservative values. For younger people, society has shifted to become more accepting and overall more liberal. 

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Just now, Marilyn MonHoe said:

Yup. It’s happening all over the country, the article details what they’re doing in other states.

As much as I don’t like liberals, Republicans are completely repugnant and vile.

Wait, do you don't like liberals?? Aren't you a Bernie supporter?

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2 minutes ago, M Monstre said:

Wait, do you don't like liberals?? Aren't you a Bernie supporter?

I’m a leftist not a liberal. There’s a difference.

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2 minutes ago, Marilyn MonHoe said:

I’m a leftist not a liberal. There’s a difference.

What is the difference, if I may ask. I'm genuinely curious and I don't know.

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23 minutes ago, M Monstre said:

What is the difference, if I may ask. I'm genuinely curious and I don't know.

The very short answer is that a liberal is in favor of incremental change instead of structural change like a leftist would be. That is why socialists in this country label themselves as leftists instead of as liberals.

A leftist is in favor of big change that would fundamentally change the way America functions. An example would be Medicare For All or raising the minimum wage to $15 dollars. Liberals used to only want a minimum wage increase to $12 instead of the $15 that Bernie fought for. Liberals also want to keep the current private healthcare insurance network instead of getting rid of it almost altogether like a leftist would.

 

These articles go in more depth:

https://theconversation.com/the-difference-between-left-and-liberal-and-why-voters-need-to-know-120273

https://www.salon.com/2019/08/04/the-difference-between-left-and-liberal-and-why-voters-need-to-know_partner/

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