Illinois College Students Say They Were Threatened With Arrest And Turned Away From The Polls

JD Mon, 03/21/2016 - 17:19

Students at Wheaton College outside Chicago, Illinois were looking forward to voting — many for the first time — in last Tuesday’s presidential primary. But instead of exercising their constitutional right, many students were threatened, intimidated, and turned away from the polls without a reasonable explanation.

One polling location near the college campus did not allow hundreds of students to register to vote on Tuesday, despite the state’s new same-day registration law, because one election judge claimed it would take too much time to register all of them. Others were turned away because they did not have Illinois identification, or because of confusion about polling locations. One poll worker threatened to arrest students who were waiting in a long line to be registered toward the end of the day.

“What was really frustrating to me was that it just seemed like it was honestly intentional voter suppression,” Moriah Gonzalez, a senior at Wheaton College, told ThinkProgress.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/03/21/3761656/illinois-student-vo...

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