Monday, February 25, 2008

Young Texans Are Eager To Vote

Armed with campaign posters, voter-registration cards and enough board games and buttered popcorn to make it through the night, dozens of Texas students spent the 10 hours before early voting began outside their campus precinct, educating every bleary-eyed studier and after-hours straggler about the Texas primary.

The state's college campuses are seeing unprecedented interest in Texas' March 4 primary – and unequaled confusion. The UT College Democrats have registered close to 23,000 people to vote in the past five weeks – the large majority of them students.

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