Voters in the 8th Congressional District should elect Bob Alexander, who is running as a Democrat against Republican incumbent Mike Rogers.
Rogers has been a leader in the effort to suppress the student vote. In 2000, “Rogers’ Law” required first-time voters to vote in person and not by absentee. By October 2002, the Detroit Free Press reported double-digit drops in voter registration in college towns. For MSU and East Lansing, there was an 11 percent drop in the number of registered voters. False rumors around campus that registering in East Lansing would get students kicked off their parents’ health insurance helped scare other students away from the polls.
