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Cannonbox! [splash!] if you're in college and you live full time in an on-campus dorm, odds are you do not get utility bills in your name. you're in an on-campus dorm run by your school, in most cases your electricity and heat and everything else are folded into the overall cost of your room and board that you pay to your college as part of the cost of going to school. you also very well might not have a driver's license. if you're a full-time college student living on campus, you might have a car. in a lot of places that is not the norm. personally, i got my driver's license about 30 second...

County in the state and we are witness now to their reaping what they sewed. county by county. school by school. shutting it down. one democratic state senator has decided she has had enough. in order to fight what is happening in her state right now, interestingly, she decided to quit her job as a state senator. ellie has been a senator in north carolina since 1997. she's 81 years old and has been in the senate for more than 16 years. today she announced she is resigning her seat. "what led me to this decision are the actions taken by the republican majority in the legislature that has been a...

Students and that is a very significant group of people who are mostly voting democrat. so this is a very blatant and obvious way to suppress the vote of those who would not keep them in office. >> in terms of the some of what we are seeing with the students and the suppression of their right to vote, i'm thinking specifically about the case, the young man, mantravius king, elizabeth, on the east coast of north carolina. that seems to me tactics used against students there seem blatantly unconstitutional. the supreme court says students have the right to vote where they two to school, but repu...

Running for office. the same challenge would also block his right to vote in that county. the republican party chairman now says he will try to go after voting rights for all of the students at that local black college in elizabeth city using the same kind of residency challenge. he says, in fact, republicans should do that statewide given the success he's had against the students at elizabeth city. he told the associated press, "i plan to take this show on the road." that was tuesday of last week. monday of last week, the republic an governor of north carolina pat mccrory signed a law that sa...

Appalachian state university student union. that precinct, obviously convenient for students who wanted to vote, that precinct was at a school where the students have had a pesky proclivity for voting and voting democratic. they're shutting that one down. now, today it's forsythe county in north carolina where the newly appointed republican majority elections board there says they also want to get rid of the voting sites at their local historically black college which is winston-salem state university. so shut them down at appalachian state, shut them down at historically black elizabeth city,...