The county decided to not have an early voting site at a Laredo university because of historic low turnout. It will have one on Election Day.
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Now, the student organizer at Texas A&M International University in Laredo is demanding answers from Webb County officials. The Laredo college students coordinated with MOVE Texas, a nonprofit that works to encourage civic engagement among youth communities, to provide free shuttle rides from the university to a polling site about 5 miles away as part of Vote Early Day, a movement started by MTV, the pop culture television network.
"To essentially remove the closest polling location that they could possibly have, just put that much more of an obstacle into their everyday routines," De Hoyos said.
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