For First Time in 20 Years, Purdue Won't Have Election Day Polling Place on Campus

Purdue University in Indiana will not have an Election Day polling place this year. The Tippecanoe County Election Board decided not to hold one, even though the campus has had one during the last four presidential elections.

“This is an overt attempt to suppress the student vote in Tippecanoe County,” Julia Vaughn, executive director of Common Cause Indiana, told Democracy Docket on Friday.

Vaughn said she knows this is voter suppression because of the board’s previous actions that have also made it harder for young people to vote.

In early 2022, the county election board required first-time voters to provide additional proof of residency if their voter registration forms were returned in person on their behalf, even though Indiana law only requires this for voters who return their applications by mail.

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