University Democrats announced a new shuttle bus system for early voting at their first meeting on Wednesday.

With early voting starting Oct. 21, and on-campus voting being moved to the Texas Union from the Peter T. Flawn Academic Center, UDems is introducing a new shuttle system to help voters get to other voting locations, including the secondary campus location at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.

“It’s going to cause a lot of confusion, but we’re going to do everything in our power to be out there all the time,” UDems president Brian Peña said. 

Peña said in 2022, voting lines once hit three to four hours at the FAC. This year, shuttles will wait outside the Union. The organization will also be handing out mail-in ballots while tabling around campus to help students vote back at home. 

“The Union is not an ideal location,” Peña said. “If I tell someone to go vote in the Union, I’m telling them to vote in a room in a four-story building. Compared to the FAC, where I say ‘Go vote in the FAC, where (you’ve) got four glass walls to show (you) exactly where (you’re) going to vote.”

The University confirmed the change in location was due to planned construction and the Union could stay as a voting location long term. 

“I can’t tell a student ‘Hey, you can go vote here, it’s going to take you four hours’… so it’s just a matter of trying to reduce those lines,” Peña said.