![A personified pencil raises a fist next to a voting ballot featuring a red dog and a blue cat beneath the words: “Let’s Vote!” Voting is critical to democracy and should be mandatory in the United States. (Mary Ngo | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_2717-1200x1200.jpg)
Voting should be mandatory in US
By Emily Beebe, Assistant News Editor
| March 5, 2024
![Donald Trump raises two fists at a campaign rally Saturday in Richmond, Virginia. Opinion Columnist Will Thiel is voting for Trump in the 2024 presidential election. (AP Photo | Steve Helber)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/AP24063081288372-1200x800.jpg)
I’m voting for Trump, here’s why
By Will Thiel, Opinion Columnist
| March 3, 2024
![Courtney Pincuspy, a first-year biology major, responds to a street interview prompt. What do students look for in a political candidate, and do students feel their votes matter? (Northern Star Graphic)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/STREET-INTERVIEWS-Election-candidates.png)
Street Interviews: Voting in elections
By Olivia Zapf, Editor in Chief
| February 29, 2024
![A voting booth stands in front of a window Nov. 8, 2022 within the Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center. Illinois primary election will take place March 19. (Northern Star File Photo)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/IMG_2321-1200x799.jpg)
Still time to register for March elections
By Brandon Clark, News Reporter
| February 22, 2024
![Junior meteorology major and Trustee Tim Moore stands at the podium during the trustee debate before the SGA elections Monday on stage the Carl Sandburg Auditorium. Prior to elections, Moore sent a mass-email titled “VOTE NOW TO PREVENT DECREASE IN ATHLETIC FUNDING,” encouraging students to vote for the NIUnited ticket, resulting in a reprimand for members of the ticket. (Nyla Owens | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Tim-Mooresubject_Nyla-Owensphotog_March-2023-900x600.jpg)
4 SGA candidates reprimanded for mass-email campaign
By Evan Mellon, News Reporter
| April 1, 2023
![Gaylen Rivers, the assistant director of programming at the Center for Black Studies, gives a presentation for Friday afternoons So-Full Friday: The Black Vote lunch and event. (Marco Sotelo Avila | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/IMG_6008-900x600.jpg)
IN PICTURES: Center for Black Studies hosts ‘The Black Vote’
By Marco Sotelo Avila, Photographer
| October 23, 2022
Generational split among black voters could hurt Biden
By TOM FOREMAN Jr.
| February 24, 2020
The Latest: Protesters hound Buttigieg on minimum wage
February 24, 2020
The Latest: Bloomberg delays town hall to prepare for debate
February 23, 2020
Reliability of pricey new voting machines questioned
By FRANK BAJAK
| February 23, 2020
Buttigieg questions 3rd place finish in Nevada, cites errors
By MICHELLE L. PRICE
| February 23, 2020
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