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  • Student Voting Guide

    This guide is designed to help voters, particularly students, understand the different state law and rules about how to register and vote. It explains the basic residency, registration, identification, and absentee voting requirements for voters in each of the 50 states and Washington, D.C.

    November 19, 2012
    Voting Rights & Elections
    Student Voting

  • Letter Urging Dutchess County to Remove Voter Registration Barrier for Local College Students

    The Brennan Center for Justice and the New York Civil Liberties Union submitted a letter to Dutchess County Board of Elections Commissioner Erik Haight, urging him to stop requiring Bard College and Culinary Institute of America students to identify the names of their dormitories on voter registration forms.

    October 11, 2012
    Voting Rights & Elections
    Student Voting

  • Letter to Maine Sec. of State on Clarifying Student Residency Status

    Lee Rowland

    Recent media reports of an investigation into possible voter fraud or improper voting in Maine have focused on a list of registered voters who were also paying "out-of-state" tuition rates at Maine public universities. The Brennan Center wrote Sec. of State Charles Summers, Jr., asking him to publicly clarify that tuition rates and state residency for voting rights are governed by very different standards and reaffirm the voting rights of students who qualify as Maine residents and register to vote.

    August 17, 2011
    Voting Rights & Elections
    Myth of Voter Fraud
    Student Voting

  • Written Testimony on New Hampshire H.B. 176

    Peter Couto
    Lee Rowland

    The Brennan Center submits written testimony to the House Election Law Committee of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, expressing concern about proposed House Bill 176, related to qualifications for voting.  House Bill 176 creates unwise and unlawful barriers to full participation by New Hampshire voters, and it would make New Hampshire an outlier among the states in its discriminatory treatment of military personnel and college students.

    February 23, 2011
    Voting Rights & Elections
    Student Voting

  • Student Voting Guide | Utah

    This student voting guide explains the laws for the state of Utah.  If you wish to vote from your school address, check the student voting guide for the state in which you attend school.  If you are interested in casting an absentee ballot in your home state, check the student voting guide for that state.

    August 31, 2010
    Voting Rights & Elections
    Student Voting

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