Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp
“Vote or die.”
Unless, it’s too hard to find a stamp.
A Fairfax County
focus group this summer found many college students who have gotten an absentee
ballot simply fail to send it back because a U.S. Postal Service stamp seems to
be a foreign concept to them.
“One thing that
came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy,
was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in
absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don’t know where
to get stamps,” Lisa Connors with the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs
said.
“That seems to be
like a hump that they can’t get across.”
The focus group
included college interns from across numerous county departments.
“They all agreed that they knew lots of people who did not send in their ballots because it was too much of a hassle or they didn’t know where to get a stamp,” Connors said.
“Across the board,
they were all nodding and had a very spirited conversation about ‘Oh yeah, I
know so many people who didn’t send theirs in because they didn’t have a
stamp.’”
Hey, I know! Drop social justice
classes and choose-a-gender workshops and have mandatory “How Life Really Works.”
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