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We thank you for joining us for our virtual Headliner Program on the potential crisis in the college vote this fall. Thurgood marshall jr. And paul low, founder and president of the campus election engagement projects. While covid19 continues to spread across the country, how americans vote has become a critical issue as politicians debate debate the verses constituents one has emerged as a critical block, the voting rate more than doubled from 19 in the 2014 election, to 40 in 2018. In a poll of 4000 students, conducted august 9 through 12, funded by the knight foundation, 71 percent of students say they are absolutely certain they will vote. So ident i is democrats are the most likely to be absolutely 81 ,in they will vote at followed by republicans at 74 and independence at 63 . That includes that assumes that collegeage voters will be able to vote and that their votes will be counted. Covid19 has upended education in genera ....