Tag: First Time Voting
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What a Long, Strange Trip It’s Been
By Melissa Kramer Two friends enter the glossy double doors of the polling center at SUNY New Paltz. “It is time,” one friend says to another. Today is Election Day, and anticipation surrounds the campus. Inside the large gathering space, a small but anxious line waits for its big moment. Voting booths are lined up…
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My First Time Voting: Election Day
By Erica Aulogia Unenthusiastic students shuffled in and out of the SUNY New Paltz polling station the afternoon of Nov. 8 in SUB 209, in what appeared to be a halfhearted and anticlimactic affair. First-time voters seemed to be treating their civic duty of voting as a chore. People stood in line at the polling…