Duke in Pictures: Teach-in Covers Challenges to Student Voting in 2016

Gunther Peck (right), associate professor of public policy and history, speaks with Bruce Orenstein, a CDS documentary filmmaker prior to a Teach-In highlighting the challenges confronting student voting in 2016. The event was held Tuesday night in the Divinity School.

Peck told students that student voting made a difference in the 2008 election, in which President Barack Obama won North Carolina by 14,000 votes, the first Democrat to win the state in a presidential election in decades. But since then the General Assembly voted in new restrictions on voter registration and early voting, both of which young voters made great use of.

The event was sponsored by Scholars for North Carolina’s Future, the Department of History, Duke Democrats and the Black Student Alliance.

For more, read the Duke Chronicle story here.

Photos by Jon Gardiner/Duke Photography