Student and Employee Voting Rights: Agency in Institutions

An article released October 25th, 2018 details the negative effects of a voting restriction at Texas State University. It was posted on twitter and gained movement there, with the usage of the Texas Tribune twitter account. The ability to vote early on campus exists, but has been shortened to three days, and is only open for several hours each day, which becomes a major inconvenience for the almost 39,000 students who are trying to vote between classes, extracurriculars, jobs, visiting home, etc. The article frames institutions as things that are supposed to help facilitate the agency of the groups and individuals that it works for as well as show how this particular institution is halting instead of facilitating the agency of university students and faculty. It also shows the importance of exercising civil duties and how doing so with full agency could potentially have positive effects on those citizens who are able to do so. However, it fails to note the effects of such restrictions in institutions besides colleges which may already restrict the agency of it's employees or citizens, and thus the privilege that college students have in comparison to, for example, an employee with an 8 hour shift and only a half-hour break per shift.