As a Purdue alumnus, I find it unconscionable that the bureaucrats can't dedicate a space to support their students' free exercise of their voting rights. Are they worried that our party apparatchik attorney general will sue Purdue for making it easy for students to vote him out of office?
I can't believe the lack of transparency here from officials. Exactly what did PurdueVotes do or not do? What's so important about parking for a voting center that serves a population that often doesn't have a car at all? I sincerely hope this is fixed by November or earlier
Thanks for drawing attention to this. The university's silence on the issue is concerning - the issue has now been in play for a number of days, and nobody at the university is saying anything? The university that claims itself capable of "giant leaps" can't muster up a secure internet connection in a single central location?
Purdue can raise millions upon millions of dollars for a multitude of new construction, but not a permanent vote center? Come on Purdue, you can do better.
Sorry I don’t have specific data, but from the petition to fix this issue:
“In failing to offer even one day of on-campus voting access this electoral season, Purdue stands alone and apart from its group of peer universities and its fellow Midwestern Big Ten Academic Alliance members”
This year, Purdue doesn’t need a polling place. It needs multiple polling places. Campus is beyond crowded. I predict prohibitively long lines for students trying to vote, just like what is happening with students trying to eat at dining halls.
As a vote center would be open to everyone, not just students, and campus is the most crowded it has ever been, it’s not unreasonable to see why space and other resources might not be able to be dedicated for voting during this cycle. Perhaps the county and the Univeristy could find a way to collaborate with the owners of the 720 Northwestern Building to use the long empty grocery store space as a voting location.
As a Purdue alumnus, I find it unconscionable that the bureaucrats can't dedicate a space to support their students' free exercise of their voting rights. Are they worried that our party apparatchik attorney general will sue Purdue for making it easy for students to vote him out of office?
I can't believe the lack of transparency here from officials. Exactly what did PurdueVotes do or not do? What's so important about parking for a voting center that serves a population that often doesn't have a car at all? I sincerely hope this is fixed by November or earlier
Purdue needs to step up and make an on-campus voting location happen. This is shameful. And why this year, of all years, has Purdue declined to do so?
Thanks for drawing attention to this. The university's silence on the issue is concerning - the issue has now been in play for a number of days, and nobody at the university is saying anything? The university that claims itself capable of "giant leaps" can't muster up a secure internet connection in a single central location?
Purdue needs to step up and make an on-campus voting location happen. This is shameful. And why this year, of all years, has Purdue declined to do so?
CityBus should do a Voter Express loop on Election Day. You should not be disenfranchised because you don't have a car.
Purdue can raise millions upon millions of dollars for a multitude of new construction, but not a permanent vote center? Come on Purdue, you can do better.
Thank you for exposing this scandal.
Remember when you want to say “ NO “ change the rules. The red magas are afraid the students will vote against their asinine candidates!
I wonder if Purdue is an outlier - that is, are all major Indiana colleges waving off of on campus voting?
Sorry I don’t have specific data, but from the petition to fix this issue:
“In failing to offer even one day of on-campus voting access this electoral season, Purdue stands alone and apart from its group of peer universities and its fellow Midwestern Big Ten Academic Alliance members”
This year, Purdue doesn’t need a polling place. It needs multiple polling places. Campus is beyond crowded. I predict prohibitively long lines for students trying to vote, just like what is happening with students trying to eat at dining halls.
As a vote center would be open to everyone, not just students, and campus is the most crowded it has ever been, it’s not unreasonable to see why space and other resources might not be able to be dedicated for voting during this cycle. Perhaps the county and the Univeristy could find a way to collaborate with the owners of the 720 Northwestern Building to use the long empty grocery store space as a voting location.
The overcrowding is evidence of the incompetence of the current administration and no excuse for suppressing the University vote.
Meanwhile, there is the Big Ten voting challenge:
https://allinchallenge.org/bigten/
Thank you for the correction. Just really hoping students and faculty will take advantage of the close off campus opportunity.
The county has that as noon-5 p.m. Oct. 22 at First United Methodist Church.