{"id":143444,"date":"2018-11-06T10:54:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=143444"},"modified":"2023-06-27T13:03:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T17:03:46","slug":"students-head-polls-election-day-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/11\/students-head-polls-election-day-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Head to the Polls on Election Day 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students board a bus chartered by members of the UConn Labor Coalition for a ride from the Greer Fieldhouse to vote at the Mansfield Community Center on Nov. 6, 2018. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Students board a bus chartered by members of the UConn Labor Coalition for a ride from the Greer Fieldhouse to vote at the Mansfield Community Center on Nov. 6, 2018. (Peter Morenus\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"In<\/a>
In addition to the normal bus routes, there are specific buses running throughout the day (starting at 11:30 a.m.) that go from outside the Greer Fieldhouse to the Community Center. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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In addition to the normal bus routes, there are specific buses running throughout the day (starting at 11:30 a.m.) that go from outside the Greer Fieldhouse to the Community Center. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"The<\/a>
The Mansfield Community Center is the polling location for both local residents and UConn on-campus students, regardless of their hometown. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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The Mansfield Community Center is the polling location for both local residents and UConn on-campus students, regardless of their hometown. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"UConn<\/a>
UConn students and town residents are given separate registration tables. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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UConn students and town residents are given separate registration tables. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Joseph<\/a>
Joseph Kavgaci \u201819 (ENG), checks in with the election officials to receive his ballot and vote. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Joseph Kavgaci \u201819 (ENG), checks in with the election officials to receive his ballot and vote. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Polls<\/a>
Polls opened at 6 a.m. this morning, and are open throughout the day. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Polls opened at 6 a.m. this morning, and are open throughout the day. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div>\"Students<\/a>
Students and local residents alike are voting on candidates for state governor, one U.S. Senate seat, state senate and house seats, and several critical state offices. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div>
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Students and local residents alike are voting on candidates for state governor, one U.S. Senate seat, state senate and house seats, and several critical state offices. (Lucas Voghell \u201920 (CLAS)\/UConn Photo)<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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With much at stake in this year’s mid-term elections, students living on campus joined local residents at the Mansfield Community Center to cast their votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":143457,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,2225,2234],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-143444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-uconn-storrs","category-university-life","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-17 10:42:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143444"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143462,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143444\/revisions\/143462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/143457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143444"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=143444"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=143444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}