Posts Tagged ‘Local Elections’

Local Elections

Posted by Chris Given on Monday, August 17th, 2009

You should do this.

Something important

Late last week, Ken Cooper from Security sent out a ‘Security Alert’ to the first-year class that pretty strongly discouraged them from voting locally. Professor Jonathan Becker, who coordinates many of the get-out-the-vote efforts at Bard, wrote a response that is worth reposting here in full.

Dear Students:

I am writing to you on behalf of election.bard.edu, which runs many of the election related activities at Bard.

You might have noticed a note from my friend and colleague Ken Cooper on the relationship between jury duty and voter registration. As you will come to see, Ken is the master of the quirky email, for which he has a cult following on campus. However, in this instance I thought it would be helpful to write a follow-up on this subject to provide a bit more context.

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