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Cornell Votes announced its new voter ambassador program recently to increase voter turnout for future elections.

Students and voting rights advocates say voters on college campuses face too many difficulties trying to cast their ballots.

University students and voting rights advocates say voters on college campuses faced far too many difficulties trying to cast their ballots.

University students and voting rights advocates say voters on college campuses faced far too many difficulties trying to cast their ballots. In Ohio, some students had to cast provisional ballots because poll workers wouldn’t accept university-issued utility bills as proof of residency, in violation of state law.

Cornell Votes, a nonpartisan campus organization, hosted its second-annual Civic Celebration to celebrate this year’s historic on-campus voter turnout and Cornell and Ithaca community members’ contributions to democratic participation.

For the first time, nearly all Cornell students who live on campus will be able to vote on campus in a general election, thanks in part to the advocacy of the student group Cornell Votes.

Common Council member Patrick Mehler expressed frustration with the tactics used by Tiffany Kumar, who defeated Mehler in the Democratic primary for Ithaca’s Fourth Ward Council seat: “I think a

With 100% of precincts reporting, Tiffany Kumar 24 is the presumptive winner of the Democratic party primary for Ithacas 4th Common Council ward. Kumar and her opponent, Patrick Mehler 23, spoke to The Sun about the race and the issues at stake.

Since the recent leak of the Supreme Court’s draft decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization, a Mississippi abortion case, campus organizations of various ideologies have commented on the news that the Court could potentially overturn Roe v. Wade.