With elections coming up in November, the ritual push for voter registration has begun once again.
For college students, what’s almost more important than if you’re registered? It’s where you are registered.
Many students don’t think about this when voter registration tables pop up around campus and e-mails about the importance of voting line their Wildcat inboxes. Ease of voting is just as important as being registered to vote.
How many of you out there know how to get an absentee ballot from your home county? Exactly, now how many of you can find the Baldwin Primary Center right behind the Baker Horn and Markham apartments? It’s that simple.
For many other students, they get to campus not realizing that they can register to vote where they go to school. That’s right, just because you aren’t from Baldwin City, or even Kansas, doesn’t mean you can’t register to vote here.
Although some students may have reasons for staying registered at home, many students are better served being registered in Baldwin, where they spend between nine or 10 months of the year.
Here are a few good reasons to get registered to vote in Baldwin City:<br/>1. Student interests would be better represented by local governing bodies if 950 students rocked the Baldwin vote, i.e., maybe a streetlight would finally go up near the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house.1. Student interests would be better represented by local governing bodies if 950 students rocked the Baldwin vote, i.e., maybe a streetlight would finally go up near the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house.
1. Student interests would be better represented by local governing bodies if 950 students rocked the Baldwin vote, i.e., maybe a streetlight would finally go up near the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house.
2. Adjunct Professor of Psychology Tony Brown is running for the Kansas Statehouse, which is reason enough to get registered to vote in Baldwin. Being registered in Baldwin will give you the opportunity to vote for Baker’s beloved Dr. Brown.
3. It will be much easier to vote this fall if you are registered here in Baldwin.<br/>The most important of these reasons is really the third; it will allow you to go vote between classes, before practice or right before dinner. By voting, you make yourself heard, especially in Baldwin politics where the pool of people shouting is not very big.&#160;The most important of these reasons is really the third; it will allow you to go vote between classes, before practice or right before dinner. By voting, you make yourself heard, especially in Baldwin politics where the pool of people shouting is not very big.
The most important of these reasons is really the third; it will allow you to go vote between classes, before practice or right before dinner. By voting, you make yourself heard, especially in Baldwin politics where the pool of people shouting is not very big.
Why not vote where the issues really affect you? If your city council at home is changing city ordinances, you’ll only be affected during the summer. When the Baldwin City Council creates or changes city code, you are affected over the course of the entire school year.
As a disclaimer to all of this, educate yourself before you go to the polls. If you don't know about certain ballot issues or certain candidates for office, you won't know the consequences of a yes or no vote, or a vote for Smith or Jones. <br/>Be on the lookout throughout the semester for information tables and voter awareness campaigns.Be on the lookout throughout the semester for information tables and voter awareness campaigns.
Be on the lookout throughout the semester for information tables and voter awareness campaigns.