Yesterday was our first day on the Kent State campus. We arrived with a 15-passenger van festooned with signage that invited early voting and positioned it right in front of the Student Center. Under cloudy, often rainy skies, hundreds of students passed by.
“How would you like to avoid the long lines on Election Day and vote early today?” I would toss out to each passerby. I must have spoken to 300 students. The most common response was a polite “no thank you” that seemed to come from four sources:
Ohio election law permits voter registration through October 6. But Early Voting begins September 30. This means that for one week, Ohio residents may register and vote early in all of Ohio’s 88 counties. 
Some art, like the 1969 Hopper/Fonda film, 
My wife and I are going to Ohio to register voters.
On September 10,