Letter to the editor
I have had a number of friends ask me a rather unsettling question: Is it true that my absentee ballot will only be counted in the case of a tie? The answer, of course, is no! Absentee ballots count the same as the ballots cast at polling places on Election Day. But this question brings to light the issues that college students around the country will face when trying to cast their votes. Between the registrars in Virginia who were erroneously informing students that they would lose scholarships if they registered to vote in the state, the new voter ID laws that require identification that some students simply don't have, and recent efforts by the Republican party to challenge the validity of new voters, many of whom are young, students face huge hurdles on November 4th.