It was a crisp fall day in 2008, when students all over the University of Memphis campus boarded buses heading to local voting facilities to cast their votes in a landmark, meritorious presidential election. Just 50 years earlier in 1968, students known as the Memphis State Eight, rallied and protested for voting rights on the very same campus. In 2014, students are still carpooling and bussing it to local voting facilities to have their voices echoed into a “voting realm” but the reality is, many do not feel connected to or even completely understand how elections work. It seems as if young people feel more connected to the number of likes they obtain on a social media post or the data plans of their cell phones, rather than the seeking to understand the complexity of the voting process.
