The NAACP’s Virginia Chapter on Monday sued the Virginia Board of Elections for unlawfully rejecting college students’ applications and same-day registration provisional ballots.

The complaint stated that application and registration requirements are unduly cumbersome for college students, effectively hindering their right to vote:

On too many college and university campuses in Virginia, however, the right to vote requires that a student jump through hoops such as providing a college dormitory name, a dorm room, a campus mailing address, and/or mail box number, none of which has any relevance to the student’s eligibility to vote, none of which is asked for or even referenced on Virginia’s voter registration application, and none of which serves any material purpose in the voter registr

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