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Morning Edition is reporting [5-minute audio] on how Liberty University is canceling class Nov. 4, busing students to the polls, catering food, and holding an all-day campus event. Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr is quoted as saying he hopes a student body of 10,000 can make a difference in what promises to be a close count. Recent state-wide elections have been decided by mere hundreds and 13 electoral votes on the national board are at stake.
Falwell says that 80 to 90 percent of his students are Republicans, but not all are registered to vote in Virginia. So the school told dorm leaders [] to see to it that everyone had the proper forms.
So out-of-state students are targeted to trade their hometown mail-ins for a battleground ballot?
What are the other in-state schools and student organizations doing for Election Day? The big public schools are not nearly as one-sided on the political spectrum as an evangelical institution, and they draw significant numbers of their student bodies from left-leaning Northern Virginia and from out-of-state.
Virginia Tech, the University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, and George Mason University each have a student body around 30,000. And today is their last chance to register to vote.
