Students, booming suburbs swung Hays vote to Democrats

Nov. 23, 2020

By: Philip Jankowski

Catherine Wicker had to go about registering Texas State University voters much differently this year.

Typical get-out-the-vote events were out the window with the coronavirus pandemic. Outside organizations were prohibited from holding voter registration events on campus.

Wicker, a graduate student in public administration, said her efforts with the national nonpartisan organization Campus Vote Project had to evolve. Passing around clipboards wouldn’t work. Sharing pens was too risky.

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