Voting at black colleges has tumbled. Can Dems fix the apathy in time for 2018?Tony Pugh, tpugh@mcclatchydc.com, November 27, 2017, McClatchy DC | McClatchyDC.com Voter turnout among the estimated 300,000 students at HBCUs fell nearly 11 percent from 2012 to 2016, according to a national survey by the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education at Tufts University. The decline, while consistent with a fall off among black voters of all ages in 2016, was a sharp departure.