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About a hundred community and state college students were at the state capitol today to ask lawmakers to overturn the new elections law. The students say the reduction in early voting days from 14 to eight hits them particularly hard, because many of them work and go to school fulltime and need more voting options. Sarah Pemberton, the president of the Florida College System Student Government says the reduction also affects minority voters who often go to the polls after church on Sundays.

“Historically they have gone straight from church to their polling station. They take care of their spiritual duty, then they take care of their civic duty. We know that as a community and now we have eliminated that last Sunday of early voting,” said Pemberton.

The students are asking lawmakers to restore early voting to 14 days. Supporters of the changes say even though the number of days were reduced the hours were kept the same. They’re also praising the new elections law for the speedy returns in Tuesday night’s primary