Voting Questions

It's almost November 4. Election Day. After months of debates, ads not only on television but on websites, and piles of mail urging us to vote every which way. This election has one thing we've never seen before: an overwhelming amount of new voters. 

At Michigan State University, registering students began months ago. And now, with less than a week to go, most students know who they are voting for, but they have other questions. Where to go, what to bring, how the process goes?

With many students having to submit different addresses (their own on campus, dorm addresses), they do not know where to go to vote. Students don't know what kind of id to bring. And who can blame them, because they have never done this before (unless maybe they voted in the primary).

So much time has been spent getting students registered and learning about the candidates, but in order for students to vote, they need to know what to do/what to bring. It does nothing having thousands of new voters registered if no one has told them how to go about voting in the election!

I am impressed how many students are getting into the election and participating. It's overwhelming, but it seems now that the students are overwhelmed, trying to figure out the process.

My advice is to go online and look for your precinct. There are also websites to not only inform you of everything on the ballot, but everything you can vote for, and what you need to have with you come Tuesday.