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Early voting for Georgia Southern?
Campus may get site for presidential election
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A bipartisan request to place an election-day voting precinct on the Georgia Southern University campus has drawn a counterproposal to instead hold three days of early voting on campus prior to the Nov. 6 general election.Bulloch County Elections Supervisor Patricia Lanier Jones made the counteroffer to conduct early voting on campus Oct. 23, 24 and 25; a Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. GSU student leaders from the College Republicans, Young Democrats and Student Government Association expressed support during a meeting Monday with Jones and the Board of Elections.Georgia Southern’s interim dean of students indicated that university officials also support the idea and are considering the Russell Union student center as the most likely location.As Jones pointed out, an election-day polling place would serve only those students who live in the assigned precinct. But the early voting location would be open to all students registered to vote in Bulloch County, and indeed, to any Bulloch County voters.For now, Jones’ proposal is to try the GSU location just for the November general election, and even that, she said, will require pre-clearance by the U.S. Justice Department under the Voting Rights Act.
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