Tag: Election

College Students: Voting Obstacles

 

by Laura Fitzpatrick @ TIME "Every presidential election finds college students wading through a swamp of murky laws and logistical hurdles to get into the polling booths. But this year, amid students' record interest — and record primary turnout — experts say many campus precincts are sorely unprepared to meet student demand. And laws passed after the 2004 election, ostensibly to clamp down on voter fraud, could cause a slew of new problems that disproportionately hit student voters. Which means the question in 2008 isn't whether young voters deliver. "It's can the young voters deliver?" says Matthew Segal, executive director of the Student Association for Voter Empowerment. The most glaring problems come from lack of preparation. Segal fears not much has changed since his experience as a freshman at Kenyon College in 2004, during the closely contested Ohio race. He manned the 10-hour polling lines on campus, dispensing water, pizza and umbrellas to the stalwarts who stuck...

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Election: Kung Fu Edition

 

It's one thing to watch the candidates battle it out for the hearts and minds of Americans via traditional media outlets and verbal assaults. However, it's quite another to introduce a drop-kick to Cindy McCain's face, or plant a sharp hockey stick directly into Obama's derrier. Thankfully, we can do all this and more with Atom's excellent game: Kung-Fu Election. http://www.atom.com/spotlights/kung_fu_election/

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