Despite barriers, young people voted in record numbers in recent elections and continue to exert their political power.
in this year’s Democratic primaries. With a lineup of contentious elections this fall, young people are now preparing for a different kind of political challenge:have put college communities in their crosshairs, leaving college towns — and in some cases, single campuses — carved into two or three different districts.
Packing, on the other hand, jams a group into as few districts as possible. When one political party is concentrated in an area, it allows for overwhelming wins in a handful of districts but weakens that group’s voting power everywhere else. Southern Coalition for Social Justice’s Brown is an alumnus of North Carolina A&T State University, the largest HBCU. The university was a victim ofin 2010 and again in 2016. According to Brown, Republicans’ efforts divided the college between two congressional districts, separating thousands of Black voters.illustrated the absurdity of the effort.
“As students learn what district they’re in, you’re able to direct them toward the polling location that best serves them and have transparent information about why the campus is broken down that way,” Williamson explained. Since August, Thorson has closely followed redistricting efforts in Wisconsin following a lawsuit from a group of Democratic voters alleging that the state’s district maps were “extreme partisan gerrymandering” and violated the state constitution. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed“We’re starting to move in the right direction with those maps. I think they’re more competitive,” Thorson said. “But to say they’re perfect I don’t think would be accurate either.
Brown noted that when students are reassigned dorms every year, their mailing addresses tend to differ from their residential addresses, and there’s another layer of confusion and hassle when re-registering for each move.
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