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Turnout warriors: Anthony Zhang, right back, and Kassie Phebillo, right front, educate UT students on Texas voting procedures.

THE VOTING WARS
COME TO CAMPUS
Students face a growing maze of voting restrictions.
Can they find their way through in time for 2020?

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exas: home of corn dogs, Matthew McConaughey, and
some of America's most restrictive voting laws. To
register yourself, you have to print out a form and deliver it to the county clerk, because unlike most states, Texas
has no online voter registration. To help register others, you
must be certified as a "volunteer deputy registrar," a process
that requires either taking an exam or attending an often
long and awkwardly timed training session. Your certificate
is only valid in the county where it is obtained.
The state has also made it harder to cast a ballot. Between 2013 and 2016, Texas eliminated more than 400 polling locations, the largest drop in any state during that time.
In 2013, after years of litigation, it implemented a strict voter ID law. The law, which lists seven kinds of acceptable IDs,
became infamous for its brazenly partisan implications-
handgun licenses are okay, for example, while student IDs
are not.
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All of which makes the following statistic so surprising: at
the University of Texas at Austin, the state's flagship university, undergraduate turnout increased from almost 39 percent to
53 percent between 2012 and 2016. Over that same time period, national youth turnout stayed roughly constant. The National Study of Learning, Voting, and Engagement at Tufts University, which calculates campus voting rates, has not yet released
numbers for last year's midterms. But at UT Austin's on-campus
polling locations, the number of early ballots cast was more than
three times higher than it was in 2014. (Travis County only provides polling site specific data for early voting.)
The state of Texas is not alone in seeming to apply tougher
voting rules to college students, who as a group are more left leaning than the overall electorate. In New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, Iowa, and Arizona-all presidential battlegrounds-
Republican-controlled legislatures have created particular obstacles for college voters. And yet, in the midst of this clamp-

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