Friday, October 24, 2008
News Obama campaign to drive Atlanta, Macon college students to polls
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 11:22 PM
If you're stuck at college in Atlanta or Macon without a car and those damn campus buses don't go anywhere near the polls, the Barack Obama campaign is here to save you.
Workers from the presidential nominee's Hope Depots© will offer free bus rides for students from select colleges and universities next week for advanced voting.
Full list with details follows after the jump:
Buses will pick up students from their campuses and bring them to one of the advance polling locations in their county and them bring them back to campus after they have voted.
WHO: College students across Atlanta and Macon
WHEN: October 27 – 31, 2008 (week of Advance Voting)
WHERE:
Monday, October 27
Georgia State University, 10 am-5 pm
Pickup - corner of Courtland St SE and Gilmer St SE
Tuesday, October 28
Emory University, 9 am-1pm
Pickup - 640 Means Drive (shuttle stop behind the DUC)
Tuesday, October 28
Georgia Tech, 1:30pm-5pm
Pickup - 750 Ferst Drive (Campus Recreational Center)
Wednesday, October 29
Spelman, Morehouse, Clark Atlanta & Morris Brown, 9am-5pm
Pickup - Lee Street (traffic circle between Morehouse and Spelman)
Thursday, October 30
Mercer University – Macon, 9am-5pm
Pickup – 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon (behind Plunkett Hall parking lot)
Friday, October 31
TBD
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