Trump administration tightens campus voting rules, fueling youth turnout fears

The Education Department is tightening how colleges support student voting, barring use of federal work-study funds for voter registration activities and urging schools to limit which students receive registration materials, while launching probes into data-sharing from the Tufts NSLVE study. Critics say the moves aim to suppress youth turnout ahead of a closely watched midterm, even as Republicans push a broader elections bill and turnout data show college students vote at higher rates than the overall 18- to 29-year-old group.