It’s no secret why Hillary Clinton gave a speech Monday at Temple University targeted at young folks, and specifically students like me: She needs Millennial votes to win the White House. But I know first hand the obstacles my generation faces to play an active role in democracy, especially those of us going to college or living in a different state from the one where we have permanent residency. Instead of running away from those obstacles to voting, Millennials ought to run toward them.

Consider: In a Quinnipiac University Poll released Sept. 14 that asked respondents to choose only between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, among likely voters ages 18 to 34, Clinton’s lead over Trump was 21 points. When the poll was broadened to a four-way race with third-party candidates Libertarian Gary Johnson and the Green Party’s Jill Stein, Clinton’s total support among young voters dropped from 55 to 31 percent. (Johnson came in second with 29 percent, Trump third at 26 percent and Stein last with 15 percent.)

We Millennials absolutely can’t afford to let our diminished enthusiasm for this election keep us on the couch on election day. Sadly, Millennials have the lowest voter turnout of any age group, even though we have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest generation in the nation. That must change, because the stakes in this election are too high.

I was born in Reno and carry a Nevada driver’s license but have gone to school in Southern California for five years. To vote, I must request by mail an absentee ballot, which I do because my vote in Nevada, a battleground state, means much more than my vote in California, a reliably blue state. Amid midterms, papers and college (or graduate school) distractions, filling out the paperwork ahead of deadlines can be hard.

For Millennials who wish to register to vote in the state in which they are currently living, there are still more obstacles — strict voter ID laws that have been enacted in the name of eradicating voter fraud, despite the extremely low frequency with which voter fraud occurs. Voter ID laws are correctly lambasted as nefarious ways to make it more difficult for minorities and the poor (who are more likely to vote for Democrats but less likely to possess or have the resources to obtain valid identification cards) to exercise their vote. But college voters often find themselves victim of such laws as well.

Students IDs, out-of-state driver’s licenses and out-of-state ID cards aren’t accepted as forms of voter identification in many states, according to the U.S. Vote Foundation. That prompted college students in North Carolina to join a challenge to that state’s voter ID laws on the grounds that those laws discriminated against them on the basis of age, in violation of the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Those laws were struck down in August by a federal appeals court.

In Texas, a handgun license is sufficient to register to vote — but an ID card from a state university is not. A federal appeals court tossed out the ID laws, but the Texas attorney general said Thursday that he would file a petition with the Supreme Court to uphold them. You can check on voter ID laws by state at www.usvotefoundation.org.

Tuesday is National Voter Registration Day. Many universities, including mine, will host on-campus events encouraging students to register to vote. It’s been a few years since Spider-Man’s Uncle Ben reminded us that with great power comes great responsibility. Demographically, we have a great power — so we carry a responsibility to vote, no matter what the challenges.

Nathaniel Haas, a USC graduate, is a student at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.