College voters held back by Texas election law, lack of on-campus polling sites

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Many Texas universities don’t have early-voting locations on campus. And state laws regarding voter ID and registration make it hard to turn out younger voters, advocates say.

. That would have required voting locations at around 30 public universities, two of which are HBCUs, and at one private HBCU. But those efforts failed — and with just over 1,000 students, Huston-Tillotson would not have benefited from them.

And three years after the Legislature banned temporary voting sites, some local governments are still confused.on Oct. 21 to update their polling locations after they were made aware of the law just days before the start of early voting. After a last-minute scramble, they decided to turn mobile early-voting locations — including one at Texas A&M International University and Laredo College — into permanent sites instead of removing them.

“This is an election that has everyone’s attention,” she said. “That drastic wait time can happen again.”

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