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It's Too Complicated: Would Vote, if Only They Knew How...

November 8, 2006 RSS Feed Print
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  • Some Columbia University students who registered with their campus addresses had to fill out provisional ballots--because they just couldn't find their polling station, says the Spectator.
  • Washington University in St. Louis students had trouble, too--so much trouble that the Student Life newspaper calls out the university, arguing that by failing to clear up the confusion it "failed students".

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Columbia University

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