Colorado College Students Fired Up & Ready to Vote

Early voting began in Colorado on Monday, October 20th. In Colorado Springs the main polling location is in the Election Center in Downtown. Colorado College is also located within the downtown area of Colorado Springs.

When the morning began on Monday, hundreds of students from Colorado College lined up and marched down to the Centennial Office to place their votes. With signs and banners supporting Barack Obama, they banded together to show the strength of the young voters in Colorado.

After a mishap earlier in the month with the County Clerk Bob Balink's dubious mass mailout to alert students that they couldn't register to vote here in Colorado if they could be claimed on their parents tax return, their were many in the parade of students that were joining the march to protest the apparent attempt to discourage them from participating in the voting process. The Springs Action Alliance joined to protest Colorado's Top Election Official's actions.

Bob Balink immediately sent out another mailing to correct his supposed error, but even after the corrected information went out, there was a push by Senator Ken Salazar to make sure students across Colorado had the right information and were registered to vote if they wanted to.

The Colorado College students waited in line happily, listened to a student bluegrass band and made a wonderful statement to the state of Colorado and to Colorado Springs. The voting process was accomplished without problems and all students that participated got to place their vote.

In this election process in this historic year, there are more registered young voters than in the history of this country. The young people have stood up and let America know that they are tired of the same old politics as usual. For years, it appeared that the younger voters really didn't care about what went on in Washington or in their local areas.

This election season has proven that they do care and they realize the impact they can have. Young voters are informed and are not biased from years of old political ways. They see things with a fresh perspective and have no qualms about voting their conscience versus voting party lines.

I believe more than ever before that our young voters see the future better than anyone else. Bravo to the students at Colorado College for standing up and being counted.

As the bailout passed this year and politician after politician told us that our children and their children would be carrying the burden of this horrific debacle, students just like these in Colorado Springs were listening. They heard the politicians not take responsibility for anything.

Now in Colorado and across the country those same young people are standing up and speaking. They are telling the politicians they are tired of the way the have run our government and it is time for new blood and for change.

All of the students who marched to vote on Monday were Barack Obama supporters. God Bless America and God Bless the Young People of America.