College students, many casting their first ballot for president, have not been immune to the long lines, registration problems, and general confusion that have affected many voters today. Here are several incidents that have already cropped up, with several hours of voting still to go:
A Virginia Republican is trying to challenge 300 college students who received absentee ballots from their home state but also registered to vote in Virginia, according to The Washington Times.
Many students at Virginia Tech found that they had to travel to a polling place more than six miles away from the campus with no available public transportation, according to Rock the Vote. They are in a precinct with 5,600 registered voters, more than double the number of voters the state allows at one location.
Republican Party leaders want to toss out the votes of 50 Grinnell College students who listed the university’s general address rather than their individual campus addresses on their absentee ballots, according to The Des Moines Register.
Students at several universities reported long lines to vote: Temple University (two hours), Arizona State University (one hour), and the University of South Florida (over three hours).
Source: Reeves Wiedeman