'Vote Hard' hardly succeeds in getting students to vote in Monroe County

As IUSA's controversial Project Vote Hard wraps up, the Monroe County Clerk's office begins the true work behind voter registration, thumbing through the hundreds of new registration forms.\nLast week, IUSA told the IDS they had over 10,000 students registered to vote. Currently, the clerk's office has only received 400 voter registration forms from the entire county. \nStudent Body President Bill Gray said more than 17,500 forms left the IUSA office. He said a majority of those students have registered outside of Monroe County.\nIUSA Vice President Judd Arnold agreed that most IU students did not register with Monroe County, but with his or her home county.\nTara Stogsdill, the elections deputy for Monroe County, said it could be possible that the majority of the students registered outside of Monroe County.\n"If they did register from home, they will not go through our office," Stogsdill said.\nGray said he hopes the students who did take forms from their office took the time to fill them out.\n"This year in Bloomington, there has never before been greater publicity for the November election," Gray said. "This year, students know there's an election and are involved in the political process as never before"