Absentee Voters Absent
College students don't take time to get absentee ballot
Audrey Mangini
Issue date: 11/10/08 Section: Voters
Woodcock did download and fill out the application, but that's where the process stopped. It even took a persistent mother to get her to do that much.
"School demands so much attention, even outside of classes. I just didn't want to have to do something else that felt like work. I don't get a lot of free time, so it was hard for me to use it to do something like this," Woodcock said.
Woodcock said that this was a common feeling among college students at UNH. "You had to really care to go through everything to get an absentee ballot, and most kids just don't. We're so submerged in school most of the time that the elections never were the priority. It seems we're more concerned with our grades and making sure we can get out of here in 4 years, then who the president would be."
Out of the 10 college students contacted from Saratoga County, who go to college out-of-state none of them took the time to get the absentee ballot and send it in.
They felt school was too important, as it's their senior year. Eight out of the 10 hadn't even been following the election for the same reason, school taking up too much of their time.
"School demands so much attention, even outside of classes. I just didn't want to have to do something else that felt like work. I don't get a lot of free time, so it was hard for me to use it to do something like this," Woodcock said.
Woodcock said that this was a common feeling among college students at UNH. "You had to really care to go through everything to get an absentee ballot, and most kids just don't. We're so submerged in school most of the time that the elections never were the priority. It seems we're more concerned with our grades and making sure we can get out of here in 4 years, then who the president would be."
Out of the 10 college students contacted from Saratoga County, who go to college out-of-state none of them took the time to get the absentee ballot and send it in.
They felt school was too important, as it's their senior year. Eight out of the 10 hadn't even been following the election for the same reason, school taking up too much of their time.
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