Earlier this week, the US Census bureau released some statistics on the voters in the 2012 election. Their numbers broke down voters by age, race, gender, and location and examined their turnout rates and methods of voting. For students, some great observations have already been pulled by the research group CIRCLE; here are some of their key findings:

A recent article from The New York Times has generated a lot of discussion in the voting rights world. The piece, which profiles three young people of different political affiliations, examines the trend in “millennial” voters towards disenchantment and disappointment with politics.

The North Carolina legislature has student voters in their sights. Two bills filed in the State Senate on April 3^rd blatantly target students and deliberately restrict their ability to vote in their college communities.

Now that we’re in the home stretch of this long election season, Campus Vote Project would like to give you the last bit of incentive you need to vote on November 6. Some people need a healthy combination of outrage and sense of civic duty to vote. We hope our countdown blog provides a little of both.

New Hampshire Governor John Lynch must decide what to do with two bills that will affect the ability of the state’s college students to cast a ballot. The bills reflect the hostility to students that House Speaker William O’Brien displayed when he told an audience last year that young people are “foolish” and added that they “lack life experience” and “just vote their feelings.”

Two bills before the Tennessee legislature would reduce the harmful effects of the state’s strict voter ID law, but the reforms do not apply to students. The proposed measures include allowing a state worker to continue to use a state employee ID after retirement and the addition of photos to driver’s licenses for individuals older than 60.

The article originally appeared on the Huffington Post.

Yesterday the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed an initiative that would make it infinitely harder for students to vote in state. The change would clarify the definition of “residency” to tie it to the current definition of “domicile”.