URBANA, Ill. (WAND): University of Illinois students are pushing for a second polling location leading into the March Primary Election.
This years primary is on March 20th, during the U of IÂ spring break.
A group of students held a news conference today saying County Clerk Gordy Hulten will not add a second early voting location.
The current plan is for a single polling location in the Illini Union., but one county board member says this won't be enough.
"Donald Trump's national voter suppression scheme has a an ally in the Champaign County Clerk's Office," Josh Hartke, a Champaign County Board Member, says. "Those who live in dormitories and university housing - their homes close, they have to leave this community so they don't have the opportunity to vote on election day."
During the 2016 election students waited in line for up to three hours to vote.