I’ve heard several reports of student voters being challenged or turned away from the polls today, and a quick Google is turning up more. I’ll be collecting those stories and links here as the evening rolls on.
If you’ve got word of something I’ve missed, let me know.
CONNECTICUT | Three student voters from U Conn were challenged by “unofficial election checkers” deployed by the Republican Party to a local polling place, according to a district election official. All three challenges were rejected.
IOWA | Students at Central College were turned away from the polls when election officials refused to accept their dormitory housing contracts or college directory listings as proof of residency.
MICHIGAN | Reports say that students at the University of Michigan and Michigan State were turned away from the polls because the state had “automatically changed their addresses to match their driver’s licenses instead of their University of Michigan address.” More on the Michigan situation here.
SOUTH CAROLINA | The state Democratic Party says that self-described Tea Party activists harassed student voters this morning at Benedict College, a historically black institution in Columbia, SC. Other reports from Benedict indicate that student voters there were challenged and forced to submit provisional ballots.
VIRGINIA | Someone allegedly broke into Representative Tom Perriello’s campaign offices early this morning and tampered with door hangers meant for distribution at the University of Virginia, mixing up packets so that students would be directed to the wrong polling places. The campaign discovered the sabotage before noon, but many of the materials had already been distributed by then. (Perriello lost his re-election battle by a slim margin.)
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November 2, 2010 at 6:46 pm
Jan
Hello,
are there other or more reports of harassment and challenges against voters which are not students?
Greetings from an observer from germany. Thank you for sharing information.
November 2, 2010 at 9:14 pm
Larissa Armand
I’ve heard at the University of Colorado at Boulder some students were told polls were closed before 6, when they are open until 7pm. In the Colorado Daily (campus news) an ad was published (by a candidate’s office) with incorrect information regarding voting locations and times.