Why you have to rock the boat to rock the vote

Its an old trick. Local elected officials sometimes try to keep students from voting because they rock the boat. Although students bring large amounts of money into the local economy and their schools employ many local residents, local officials try to exclude them from the community when it comes to electing the government.

Its happening all over the country. Here's an article about a current instance in Texas, where there is an even more troublesome dynamic: the students are largely black, and there are no black elected officials in the county.

So the students are fighting back.