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Cliff Cleland: Students should be aware of voting rights

Dear Editor: Beware, college students! Someone may be trying to suppress your right to vote.

Last month, Barack Obama supporters were registering thousands of students at Virginia Tech University. The Montgomery County elections registrar then issued news releases incorrectly suggesting that students registered to vote at their college might lose their right to be claimed as dependents on their parents’ tax returns or could lose scholarships or lose car and health insurance. All lies.