MSU Voters Recap

While plenty of students, like Michigan State University sophomores Erica Ause and Tess Hoopingarner, see the value in voting, the reality is that a lot of students do not participate in smaller, especially local, elections. That said, Matt Grossmann, an assistant professor in political science at MSU, said most people generally opt out of these types of elections, not just college students. One of the reasons college students do opt out is because they don’t necessarily live where they would be able to vote, Grossmann said. Grossmann also said that he found it “interesting that more students don’t vote,” in the Ingham County elections for city council, because with 50,085 students enrolled at MSU as of 2014, they could impact the vote.