Early voting is underway, and Dalton and Preston are joined this week by Leyton Maluka and Jade Dwyer, two of the student organizers behind the viral march to the polls by students from UNCG, North Carolina A&T, and Bennett College after campus early voting sites were removed. They talk about how they built the coalition and the issues driving young voters this year, from tuition and Flock cameras to a proposed data center in East Greensboro. Then they react to Beacon Media’s coverage of a removed voting site in Granville County, share advice for communities fighting for access, and make the case for why so many students are willing to walk that far to vote.
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