Judge orders Fairfax to allow George Mason University students to vote after registration [View all]

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Judge orders Fairfax to allow George Mason University students to vote after registration applications were rejected


A federal judge ruled Friday that Fairfax County must allow 171 George Mason University students to vote next week after their voter registration applications were rejected for providing a generic university address.

U.S. District Court Judge Rossie Alston ordered the county to allow students who submitted their application on or before Oct. 15 to correct their address information, giving them until 5 p.m. Saturday to do so.

If the students miss that deadline, they must be allowed to vote Tuesday with a provisional ballot at the university’s Merlen Hall precinct if they provide their specific addresses beforehand, the judge ruled.

Earlier this week, the nonprofit Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued the county’s election officers in U.S. District Court in Alexandria after the students were told that the generic George Mason addresses on their applications made them ineligible to vote in Fairfax.

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