Chris

That's a thoroughly disingenuous piece of reporting, that glosses right over the key fact that the professor actively encouraged students to register to vote both at their home and term-time addresses. Suddenly she's shock-horror-aghast that this has been interpreted as her inciting students to break the law by voting twice (how else would you take it? You don't register in multiple areas so you can vote in person wherever you happen to be staying on polling day, you register at your normal address and apply for a postal or proxy vote if you won't be there in person on the day).

If she really didn't see how her words naturally read, then what is she doing being a professor? Clarity of communication is a basic prerequisite of undergraduate essays which presumably she marks regularly as part of her job.

Obviously it suits the Grauniad which I'm quite sure has been scouring the news wires looking for evidence of intimidation or violence in this campaign, given the fraught few months of politics we have just had. Their sub-heading "Universities have a legal obligation to encourage voter registration. This has prompted an angry reaction in some areas" is an outright lie, as the quoted objections to her Tweet make clear. She was not fulfilling the university's obligation to encourage registration, she was giving, at best, poor advice, and at worst, outright incitement to commit electoral fraud.