Tag Archives: Voting
With the sun peaking through the clouds, Edker Ivy waited in the line to cast her ballot Tuesday at the Oxford One voting station at 10:46 a.m. A 61-year-old retired Oxford native, Ivy was ready to cast her ballot in the election. She had been waiting all morning for her daughter to come pick her up. “I was at home, and my daughter came and got me. Now I get to vote,”...
Mississippi had its Republican and Democratic primaries Tuesday. Donald Trump won the majority of Republican delegates and Hillary Clinton won the vast majority of Democratic delegates. I walked around campus trying to determine whom I would vote for as a moderate Republican. I will go ahead and admit that I did not vote in the primary, for more complicated reasons than...
A new style of political campaigning has emerged in this year’s election race. A strong focus on social media presence has caused a rise in young voter participation. Major social media outlets continue to feature the presidential race, with Snapchat creating new filters and live stories for caucuses, Facebook publishing political polls and election-related hashtags...
