Every day I see hard-working students out and about on campus trying to urge me to vote. I see litter posted everywhere. I have even had stuff slid under my door.

However, on Thursday, all of this hard work was for nothing. I went to the early voting Thursday at the Parks Library and arrived around 2:15 p.m. The polls didn’t close until 3 p.m., so I figured I had plenty of time.

Well, after a good 45-minute wait, I was told the polls were closed, and that we no longer could vote.

The line was huge, and there were more than 100 student voters. The girl at the front of the line, who was first to get turned down, had been there for more than an hour. So apparently, some people can spend months and months of work to get us to vote, but others cannot wait another hour for people to vote.

Now if there is some legal issue on why, right at 3 p.m., they had to shut down the polls, then I understand. But why wasn’t there wasn’t a person at 2 p.m. standing at the end of the line, telling people that they will not have enough time to vote?

I am pretty sure this is Iowa and not Florida, but apparently, problems with voting in an election stretches much farther north this time.

Matthew Glider

Sophomore

Biology