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A Republican strategist pressed donors at a Republican National Committee retreat to make voting on college campuses more difficult, The Washington Post reported.
Cleta Mitchell, the Republican lawyer who runs the Election Integrity Network and was involved with former president Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election, presented at the committee’s recent retreat in Nashville, Tenn. Her slides outlined a strategy to reduce voting access and turnout among groups that tend to support Democrats. (The Biden administration has worked to make voting accessible for college students and other groups.)
“What are these college campus locations?” she asked, according to audio obtained by the Post. “What is this young people effort that they do? They basically put the polling place next to the student dorm so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed.”
Her presentation focused on campus voting in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Virginia and Wisconsin, according to the Post. She also criticized rules that allow students to register to vote as 17-year-olds so they can vote once they are eligible.
