Students Joining Battle to Upend Laws on Voter ID

[UCmeNdc]

College Students Claim Voter ID Laws Discriminate Based on Age



Joining a challenge to a state law alongside the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union and the Justice Department, lawyers for seven college students and three voter-registration advocates are making the novel constitutional argument that the law violates the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21. The amendment also declares that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of age.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/us/college-students-claim-voter-id-laws-discriminate-based-on-age.html?emc=edit_th_20140706&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=18674485&_r=0

[Gothmog]

1. Students are being targeted by the GOP

[LoisB]

2. With the exception of old, rich, white men who isn't being targeted by the GOPTB?

[davidpdx]

3. Good!

Students need to speak up for their right to vote.