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    College students can't send in their absentee ballots because they don't know where to buy stamps

    Nope...not an Lark story.
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    -Democrats are counting on Generation Z, many of whom recently gained the right to vote, to help turn Congress blue in the midterm elections.

    But 50 cents may be all it takes to keep these post-Millennials from exercising their civic duty.

    On Tuesday, a Fairfax County, Virginia official said they are noticing a disturbing trend: young people failing to mail in their absentee ballots because they don't know how to get a stamp.

    Lisa Connors, of the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs, ran a focus group this summer comprised of colleges students interning in various county departments.

    "One thing that came up, which I had heard from my own kids but I thought they were just nerdy, was that the students will go through the process of applying for a mail-in absentee ballot, they will fill out the ballot, and then, they don't know where to get stamps," Connors told WTOP. "That seems to be like a hump that they can't get across."

    Connors went on to say that many in the focus group said "they knew lots of people who did not send in their ballots because it was too much of a hassle or they didn't know where to get a stamp...

    https://www.businessinsider.com/youn...ballots-2018-9

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    but not surprised.

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    If there were an "app" that let you buy stamps from a smartphone, they'd have no problem.

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    Sorry, if you don’t know how or where to buy a stamp, it’s probably better that you don’t vote.

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