Ouch!

A Washington, D.C., radio station reports the reason many college students don’t submit an absentee ballot is that “they don’t know where to get stamps.”

The study comes from a Fairfax County, Va., focus group that used college interns from several county departments.

“They all agreed that they knew lots of people who did not send in their ballots because it was too much of a hassle or they didn’t know where to get a stamp,” county spokeswoman Lisa Connors told WTOP Radio.

However, students may be able to take advantage of in-person absentee voting — that is, voting in advance — if they go home for a visit before election day.