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Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson speaks with a student Tuesday at the PlansCapital Bank Theater on the Edinburg campus.
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State Secretary Jane Nelson visited the UTRGV Edinburg campus Tuesday to educate attendees about voting so all Texans who cast a ballot have all the information they need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nelson is visiting universities and colleges across the state and said students need to remember an important website that serves as the official webpage to find voting information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVotetexas.gov is the official website from my office with all of the voting information that you will need,\u201d she said. \u201cFor college students particularly, you are going to have to make some decisions about voting.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Although the deadline to register to vote for the March 5 Primary Election passed, Nelson said there is still time to register for other elections that will take place this year. She said she encourages everyone to take advantage of their right to vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She noted to attendees that their student IDs are not an approved proof of identification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTake your Texas drivers license,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cHere are the seven forms: Texas drivers license, a Texas personal Identification card, a passport, a Texas handgun license, a military identification card, a citizenship certificate or a Texas election identification certificate. Any of those seven would work.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vaquero Radio asked Nelson what her thoughts were on the Texas voter turnout being lower compared to other states, to which she replied she did not know why it is so low. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would offer encouragement to change it,\u201d she said. \u201cEducate people, tell them where to go to vote, have what they need to take with them, how to vote and the other thing you all can help with this talk it up, \u2018Go vote. Did you vote?\u2019\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marketing sophomore Emmanuel Ayala said the state secretary was repetitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut again we are in a time of elections, so you are going to be hearing it everywhere no matter what, but it was very cool hearing it from her,\u201d Ayala said.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nelson said she encourages students to go out and vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYour vote does count,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd if you look at numbers, it\u2019s abysmally low how many people take advantage of this precious right, and I am hoping that your generation of some people that I\u2019m sitting now here will change that because your vote does count; it does count everywhere.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Students can cast a ballot during early voting until Friday on the on-campus polling stations located on Brownsville Interdisciplinary Academic Building for Cameron county and on the Edinburg Student Academic Center for Hidalgo county. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Election Day is Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is Fernanda Gonzalez for Vaquero Radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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