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Earlier this month, Kellyanne Conway,<\/strong> the longtime Republican adviser to Donald Trump,<\/strong> warned<\/a> that \u201cthe left\u201d is poised to become a \u201cturnout machine with young people,\u201d thanks to its policies on abortion, guns, and climate change. (Unlike Republicans, Democrats believe abortions should be legal, guns should be restricted, and that the government should actually do something about climate change.) Since adopting policies that are actually popular with voters is apparently out of the question, this obviously leaves the GOP in a tricky position re: winning elections. The solution, according to one top strategist and lawyer? Restricting young people from voting.<\/p>\n In a presentation delivered at a Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville on Saturday, Cleta Mitchell,<\/strong> who tried her hardest to help Donald Trump<\/strong> overturn the election in 2020<\/a>, said<\/a> that Republicans must work together to limit voting on college campuses, according to The Washington Post.<\/em> \u201cWhat are these college campus locations?\u201d she asked, according to audio of the event obtained by the Post.<\/em> \u201cWhat is this young people effort that they do? They basically put the polling place next to the student dorm so they just have to roll out of bed, vote, and go back to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n If you\u2019re wondering if it\u2019s a crime to make it easier for registered people to vote, the answer is no, though you wouldn\u2019t know it from Mitchell\u2019s presentation. According to the Post,<\/em> one of her slides read: \u201cThe Left has manipulated the electoral systems to favor one side\u2026theirs. Our constitutional republic\u2019s survival is at stake.\u201d Her presentation reportedly focused on campus voting in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Virginia, and Wisconsin, all of which, as the Post<\/em> notes, \u201care home to enormous public universities with large in-state student populations.\u201d Mitchell also apparently went after the preregistration of students, which allows 17-year-olds to register to vote leading up to their 18th birthday, so they can cast their ballot as soon as they are eligible. At one point, touching on other restrictions on voting she\u2019d like to put in place, Mitchell reportedly said she is optimistic that Republicans in Virginia will take control of the state Senate this year and eliminate early voting there. \u201cForty-five days!\u201d she decried in an apparent reference to Virginia\u2019s early voting period. \u201cDo you know how hard it is to have observers be able to watch for that long a period?\u201d<\/p>\n Republicans, of course, have long claimed that early voting and allowing college kids to use their school IDs to cast their ballot has led to widespread voter fraud, the problem there being that they\u2019ve yet to come up with any (real) evidence to bolster their claim.<\/p>\n Speaking of evidence or lack thereof, Mitchell is best known for her work trying to help Trump overturn the last presidential election, and was on the infamous phone call in which he demanded Georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger<\/strong> magically \u201cfind\u201d him the exact number of votes he needed to beat Joe Biden<\/strong> in the state. (That phone call, as well as Trump and company\u2019s broader attempt to steal the election in Georgia, is currently under criminal investigation by Fulton County district attorney, and could reportedly result in a second indictment for Trump<\/a>.) After Mitchell resigned<\/a> from her law firm, she wrote in a letter to family and friends: \u201cThose who deny the existence of voter and election fraud are not in touch with facts and reality.\u201d She later founded the ironically named \u201cElection Integrity Network.\u201d<\/p>\n