北卡大学生步行近一小时去投票：校内投票点被否决数百名学生提前投票首日游行至市区投票
格林斯伯勒——据格林斯伯勒 News & Record 报道，10 月 15 日北卡罗来纳州提前投票首日，北卡罗来纳农工州立大学（全美规模最大的四年制传统黑人大学）、北卡大学格林斯伯勒分校与本内特学院的数百名学生先集会、随后步行游行前往市区的联合广场校区（Union Square Campus）投票点投票，全程徒步约 45 至 50 分钟，沿途高喊「这就是民主的样子」，标语包括「关乎我们」（It's About Us）与「他们关了投票点，我们照样来」。
这场步行源于投票点的争议。2024 年大选时，北卡农工与北卡大学格林斯伯勒分校校内都设有提前投票点；北卡州选举委员会今年 1 月以 3 比 2 按党派界线表决，否决在北卡农工设点，8 月再度否决；吉尔福德县选举委员会则把由北卡农工、北卡大学格林斯伯勒分校与吉尔福德技术社区学院共建的市区医疗教育中心——联合广场校区——定为折中投票点。学生领袖批评该点离两校都太远，来回步行约需一个半小时，部分路段没有人行道、路边还有毒藤。
组织方表示，当天不少学生是第一次投票，联合广场投票点共投出 300 多票。活动组织者凯玛·伦纳德（Kema Leonard）说，一些学生等了三个小时，有人因要上课或上班不得不离开，现场一度发完了选民登记表：「本不该这么难……他们根本没准备好。」北卡大学格林斯伯勒分校民主党学生组织副主席杰德· 德怀尔（Jade Dwyer）说：「我们来这里，就是要让自己的声音被听见。」北卡农工民主党学生组织政治事务负责人泽维尔·琼斯（Xavier Jones）说：「他们赌你们太累、太冷漠、注意力太短……但我们来了。」州参议员娜塔莉·默多克（Natalie Murdock）陪学生走完全程，她说：「我陪他们走了这 45 到 50 分钟，无言以表……他们太棒了，一直很积极。」众议院少数党领袖罗伯特·里夫斯（Robert Reives）对学生说：「他们拿走了你们的投票点，你们照样来了。」民主党籍州选举委员会成员杰夫·卡蒙（Jeff Carmon）则质问：「能不能举出哪怕一个选民，是因为投票机会变少而受益的？」
北卡州提前投票将持续至 10 月 31 日。学生组织表示，他们接下来数周将继续组织前往该投票点的步行与接送。
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North Carolina Students Walk Nearly an Hour to Vote After Campus Early-Voting Sites Were Denied
Greensboro — On Thursday, October 15, the first day of early voting in North Carolina, hundreds of students from North Carolina A&T State University — the largest four-year historically Black university in the United States — UNC Greensboro and Bennett College rallied and then marched to the Union Square Campus polling site downtown, a walk of about 45 to 50 minutes, Greensboro's News & Record reported. Chanting "This is what democracy looks like," the students carried signs reading "It's About Us" and "They close polling sites, we keep showing up anyway."
The march grew out of a fight over polling places. Both NC A&T and UNC Greensboro hosted early- voting sites on campus in 2024; the State Board of Elections voted 3–2 along party lines in January to deny a site at NC A&T and denied it again in August, while the Guilford County Board of Elections settled on Union Square Campus — a downtown health-care education center built as a collaboration among NC A&T, UNC Greensboro and Guilford Technical Community College — as a compromise site. Student leaders criticized the location as too far from both campuses, a roughly 90- minute round trip on foot, with stretches of the route lacking sidewalks and lined with poison ivy. Organizers said many of the students were first-time voters, and more than 300 ballots were cast at Union Square that day. Organizer Kema Leonard said some students waited three hours, some had to leave for class or work, and the site briefly ran out of voter registration forms: "It shouldn't have been that hard... They weren't ready for us." Jade Dwyer, vice president of UNC Greensboro's College Democrats, said: "We are here to make our voices heard." Xavier Jones, political affairs director of NC A&T's College Democrats, told the crowd: "They are betting that you are too tired, too apathetic and have no attention span... but we are here." State Senator Natalie Murdock walked the full route with the students: "I took the 45-to-50-minute walk with them, and there are no words... They were amazing. They were positive." House Minority Leader Robert Reives told the students, "You turned out when they took your voting site away," and Jeff Carmon, a Democratic member of the State Board of Elections, asked: "Can we identify a single voter who is better served by having fewer opportunities to cast a ballot?"
Early voting in North Carolina runs through October 31. Student organizers said they would keep organizing walks and rides to the site over the coming weeks.
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来源：GSM·美国（原文链接）
图片来源：图：选民在提前投票点排队投票资料照片（摄于 Indianapolis，非本次格林斯伯勒现场）。照片：Jaireeodell／Wikimedia Commons（CC BY-SA 4.0）。File photo: voters lining up for early voting in Indianapolis; not the Greensboro event. Photo: Jaireeodell / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
