AP: “Gone are the days when young voters weren’t taken seriously. In 2008, they helped propel Barack Obama into the Oval Office, supporting him by a 2-1 margin. But that higher profile also has landed them in the middle of the debate over some state laws that regulate voter registration and how people identify themselves at the polls. Since the last election, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Wisconsin and Texas and other states have tried to limit or ban the use of student IDs as voter identification. In Florida, lawmakers tried to limit “third party” organizations, including student groups, from registering new voters.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with students on this issue and their ability to vote where they attend school, even when they’ve come from another state.

“So students should be registering in the communities that they feel are home — whether that’s their parents’ home or their apartment or their dorm room,” says Lee Rowland, counsel for the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, a nonpartisan legal think tank in New York. “It is a constitutional right to vote.”

To help them understand that right, she says the Brennan Center created an online guide for students with pages that detail voting rules and requirements in each state — http://bit.ly/Pl1pbE