OBERLIN ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2014 UPDATE

Still, I made a conscious choice to put my vote where I felt it was needed the most, and I did my civic duty. Instead, I chose to submit an absentee ballot to my hometown of Amenia, NY to help protect our town council against a slate of candidates backed by a wealthy housing development looking to circumvent taxation and zoning laws. I, admittedly, did not vote in Oberlin this year. In every other year except 2011, it has been less than half. Since 2010, in every presidential or midterm election year except 2014, the ratio of votes to registered voters, or turnout rate, in both precincts 7 and 8 has been more than half the turnout of the entire city. While every precinct in our town tends to have higher turnout for presidential and midterm elections, the effect is the most drastic in our precincts. Oberlin students consistently fail to vote in local elections. This year, while an outlier, is just the most extreme data point in a consistent and concerning pattern. Still, our communityвЂ™s failure to show up cannot just be chalked up to circumstances beyond our control. COVID-19 has made it difficult for some of those who are registered to make it to the polls, as evidenced by the lowest rates since at least 2010 in every Oberlin precinct. The College also always has lower-than-City-average turnout, due in part to alumni who remain registered after graduating and moving away.

OBERLIN ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2014 UPDATE

Given one must update their registration each time they change addresses, and virtually every college student changes addresses each academic year, this likely made it impossible for many students to vote. 29, when only first-years were moving in. 4, which was the first day of classes, and voter registration tables were set up on Sept.

The last day to register to vote was Oct. It is understandable that this year would have lower turnout rates than normal. Those numbers are astoundingly low by any measure, but for an institution with a student body that fancies itself to be politically-minded, fighting against the injustices of our world, they are particularly shameful. That amounts to 45 ballots from precinct 7 and 26 from precinct 8. For the first time since 2011, Oberlin precincts 7 and 8, which encompass the vast majority of the CollegeвЂ™s student housing, saw voter turnout rates in the single digits - 2.92 percent and 1.56 percent to be exact. вЂњWhere Was Voter Turnout Lowest? Oberlin College,вЂќ reads a Chronicle-Telegram headline from Friday, Nov.

Oberlin academic calendar 2014