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Friday, December 15th, 2017

GOP bill scraps voter registration requirements for colleges

Author:     LYDIA WHEELER
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     12/14/17 06:05 AM EST
 Link: GOP bill scraps voter registration requirements for colleges
Stephan:   Not all Republicans are stupid -- Roy Moore, Louie Gohmert, Steve King, Blake Farenthold and many others not withstanding. The smart ones understand that they are increasingly a nativist, racist, christofascist cult that has only a few years left before they are marginalized. As a result Republican do not like democracy and are doing everything they can through gerrymandering, polls taxes, voter ID, and other tricks to ensure they retain at least some power as America becomes a majority minority nation. The particularly don't like colleges, educated voters tend to vote Democratic, and so they don't want students voting. As a result we get to this.

A lecture hall of community college students, a high percentage of which are in poverty.

House Republicans are pushing a higher education bill that scraps requirements for colleges and universities to alert students to register to vote.

As part of legislation rewriting the laws governing colleges and universities, Republicans left out provisions added in 1998 and 2008 to ensure that schools make a good-faith effort to distribute voter registration forms to students enrolled at their institutions.

The House Education and the Workforce Committee approved the bill late Tuesday in a 23-17 party-line vote that largely went under the radar.

It would nix language requiring that schools request voter registration forms from their state at least 120 days before the voter registration deadline, and send students an “electronic communication” exclusively about voter registration.

It also eliminates language specifying schools are required to follow these requirements for general and special federal elections, state gubernatorial elections and elections for chief executives within the state.

The proposed legislation, known as the Promoting Real Opportunity, Success and Prosperity through Education Reform (PROSPER) Act, only says that schools must “make a good faith effort to distribute, including […]

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