Outdated voting system must be reformed

Did you vote in the election two weeks ago? Only one in five young voters did. Why? Some say apathy. The Loquitur thinks that is not the only reason.

The current voting process is frustrating and discouraging for students and must be reformed. If the process were easier, the voter turnout among students would be higher.

Voting by absentee ballot is the only alternative for residents of Pennsylvania who are too far away from home to vote in person. There is no early voting as there is in two thirds of states in the United States.

But even for those who applied for an absentee ballot, the inefficiency of snail mail caused multiple students to report that they were not able to exercise their right to vote because their ballots came too late.

Some applied for absentee ballots as far as three weeks before the deadline but did