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Introduced by Republican Rep. Carrie Isaac, HB 2390 would bar Texas
counties from operating polling places on college campuses.

Recently drafted legislation in Texas may be the key to stymieing
Democrats� exploitative use of taxpayer-funded colleges to run partisan
get-out-the-vote operations.

Introduced in February by Republican Rep. Carrie Isaac, HB 2390 stipulates
that counties �may not designate as a polling place a location on the
campus of an institution of higher education located within the county.�
If passed by the GOP-controlled legislature and signed by Gov. Greg
Abbott, the law would take effect on Sept. 1.

In a February statement, Isaac cited school safety as the primary reason
for introducing the measure, pointing to the 2017 stabbing death of a
University of Texas student and the recent Uvalde school shooting as
examples of why places of education should be off-limits for elections.

�As a mom with one child on a college campus, and one on a public school
campus, I think about the safety of my sons and their classmates
regularly,� Isaac said. �We must do everything we can to make our school
campuses as safe as possible; they should not serve as a target-rich
environment for those that wish to harm children. I have experienced
firsthand the heightened emotions that often occur at polling locations
and I will not wait for more violence to act.�

Isaac has also introduced separate legislation to prohibit public primary
and secondary schools from operating as polling places for elections.

How the Left Uses Colleges to Benefit Democrats
While not the primary reason for its introduction, HB 2390 has the
potential to curb Democrats� efforts to employ college campuses as
vehicles for conducting partisan get-out-the-vote campaigns.

As The Federalist previously reported, the Biden administration told
public universities last year that they could begin using work-study funds
� which are used to provide part-time campus jobs to help students with
tuition costs � to pay students to �support voter registration
activities.� While the Higher Education Act of 1965 requires colleges to
�make a good faith effort� to make mail voter registration forms �widely
available� to students, having taxpayers fund get-out-the-vote activities
in this way had previously not been allowed.

The directive came in relation to President Joe Biden�s March 2021
executive order requiring federal agencies to interfere in state election
processes. Despite legal efforts by government watchdog groups to uncover
how federal departments intended to implement the order in the lead-up to
the 2022 elections, the Biden administration has continued to conceal
nearly all related documents.

It�s not just the federal government attempting to use universities to
register likely-Democrat voters, however. Notable left-wing nonprofit
groups are also engaging in similar activities on college campuses across
the country.

One of these groups is Civic Nation, a nonprofit headed by Valerie
Jarrett, a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. According to
its website, Civic Nation aims �to create a more inclusive, equitable
America� through the use of multiple �national initiatives� that seek to
�take on the biggest issues of our time,� such as �fighting for gender
equity [and] racial justice.� Among the group�s initiatives is the �ALL IN
Campus Democracy Challenge,� which was established in 2016 to encourage
colleges to increase voter participation among students. To date, nearly
1,000 universities across 50 states and the District of Columbia
participate in the initiative.

While ALL IN claims to be nonpartisan, a deeper dive into the venture
reveals a different story. Among the notable signs of the group�s left-
wing partisanship is its parroting of Democrat Party talking points. Ahead
of the 2022 midterms, for instance, ALL IN released a fact sheet asserting
that �strict voter ID requirements� are �barriers� that make it more
difficult for college students to vote.

ALL IN�s founding advisory board is also stacked with Democrat partisans,
including former Clinton and Obama administration officials.

HB 2390 Should Become the Norm for All States
The notion that colleges act as a nonpartisan venue to conduct voter
registration and host elections is simply untrue. During the 2022
midterms, young voters (18-29) broke for Democrat candidates over
Republican ones by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.

While speaking with The Federalist, Hayden Ludwig, the director of policy
research at Restoration of America, elaborated on how �there�s no such
thing as �nonpartisan� get-out-the-vote campaigns because voting is
inherently political.�

�Leftists lie when they pretend that their get-out-the-vote machines are
about helping everyone vote. In reality, Democratic operatives want to
ensure that only their preferred voters cast a ballot, so each election
cycle they spend a fortune juicing turnout in Democrat hotspots like
college campuses,� Ludwig said. �The left wants college students,
millennials, single women, and minorities to vote because they�re likely
to support Democrats, so political nonprofits run biased campaigns to get
these individuals on the voter rolls while ignoring likely Republican
voters.�

Ludwig added that while he believes banning polling places from college
campuses is a good start, he�d like to see lawmakers �go even further and
ban nonprofits from running voter registration drives altogether so they
can go back to genuine charity instead of politics.�

[READ: Report: Democrats Are Weaponizing Nonprofits To Run Partisan Voter
Registration Drives]

Allowing polling places to operate on college campuses would essentially
give Democrats home field advantage on Election Day. It�s the equivalent
of setting up polling places at gun shows or evangelical churches to
benefit Republicans. The Texas Legislature�s passage of HB 2390 would go a
long way in restoring trust and integrity in our elections.

<https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/04/texas-bill-models-how-to-stop-dems-
exploitation-of-colleges-for-partisan-get-out-the-vote-ops/>