Any idea how many students migrate to the Wonderland that is Texas to go to school?
Alternatively, why the fuck wouldn't they just mail in their vote to their home state?
Sounds like a red herring to me, when the actual issue is that younger, more educated folks tend to skew Democrat these days, and recent history has demonstrated time and again that the state of Texas does everything they can to discourage the Democratic base from voting &/or Gerrymandering the fuck out of the state.
AFAIK you'd have to pull stats from each college in the state, but UT is 10.3% ~ 4500. BTW, UT is forbiden by state law to go over 10%. Texas A&M is 5.3% ~ 4000. TCU is 55% ~ 5000. Texas Tech is 7% ~ 2500. Austin Peay doesn't have %, but looks like ~ 2000.
I don't know all the schools in Texas, but that's 18k at just 5. Moreover, living in state doesn't mean you are local - Around 40% of the students at VT (located in sw VA) are from northern VA. That makes approx 18k students from Richmond/DC area that could potentially vote on local issues.
Oh, and college aged voters are the least likely to vote by demographic; I doubt that law makers were really trying to get less of them to vote.
Edit:
Baylor 46% ~ 6000.
Rice 51% ~ 3400
U North Texas 4% ~ 1600
SMU 58% ~ 6900
There's still Houston, Midland, Dallas University, Prairie View A&M, A&M Corpus Cristi, Stephen Austin, Dallas Baptist, Trinity, ACU, St. Edwards, Edward's, St. Marys, St. Thomas, St. Phillip, Incarnate Word, Stephen F. Austin