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• Crooks and Liars » Thousands of Students March 7 Miles To Vote
• Early voting starts today in Texas. In Waller County, a primarily rural county about 60 miles outside Houston, the county made the decision to offer only one early voting location: at the County Courthouse in Hempstead, TX, the county seat.
  

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  Good for them, especially today, when most people wouldn’t walk two blocks to vote.

  “Thousands of Students March 7 Miles To Vote. Then spend all day waiting in a line”

  They are retarded, couldn’t they have driven? lol

  Early voting is ALWAYS much smaller than the REAL VOTING DATE.

  And there WILL be more than 2 machines and one place open on the REAL ELECTION DAY. March 4th.

  A complete non-issue.

  video here at youtube:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvDAiWWuvRg

  It is a nice way of demonstrating that not all youth are apathetic. But the problem is just for early voting, and most counties only have one location for that….. naturally in the county seat.

  But again, I admire the initiative! Heck they didn’t just drive 8 miles to the county seat to vote; they marched en masse. Kudos.