All About Your Right to Vote

Your Right to Vote:

• You can’t withhold someone the right to vote

  • Well, you can for silly administrative things

    • BUT! You can’t single out groups of people

• You can’t ask questions to specific groups

• You cannot ask for information that identifies something specifically about that person’s demographic (unless it is a pertinent goal of the state)

• States are empowered to make a lot of their own suffrage rights decisions about voting

• For many students this leads to…

  • Lots of implications about tricky voting
  • Not a lot of outright “you can’t vote”

• HAVA

  • Net harm for voting rights
  • Done in response to Bush-Gore election

Why We Can’t Have Ballot Boxes on Campus:

• Would have to be passed through a bill at the state legislator level

• Would need to be secure

  • Bolted to the floor
  • Live internet connected video feed
  • Needs to be collected daily

• May revisit in 1-2 years

Polling Place on Campus:

• Must be neutral

• Fletcher free is not that far from campus

Voting Calendar:

• Vote 411

• Problem: doesn’t go very far into the future

  • Best research for elections (such as candidate platforms) usually occurs in the few weeks before hand

• Can we link this to our site?

Voting Out Of State:

• Add a module for resources on the website

• Should we focus on an instate path?

UVM Votes Podcast:

• How can we add to this?

• Case studies?

• On the back burner for now

SGA Committee:

• Comparative analysis of student governments around the country

• One member from UVM Votes

• One member will be a paid intern AND get credit

Fliers:

• Fliers with incorrect dates are still all around campus

• Do we take these down?

Actionables