Topeka ? A new course has been designed to help students learn how to register to vote because new state laws have made the process more complicated, supporters said.

The League of Women Voters and professors at three Kansas public universities unveiled the proposal Saturday, saying it came in response to a disproportionately large number of younger voters on the state’s suspended voters list, The Wichita Eagle reported. The newspaper reported earlier this year that more than 40 percent of the nearly 37,000 people in the suspended voter list are younger than 30.

The course will begin this fall at Washburn, Emporia State and Fort Hays State universities. Supporters hope high schools and colleges across the state will use it next year before the 2016 elections.

Marge Ahrens, co-president of the League’s Kansas chapter, said the course will teach students how to register both themselves and others.

“They can register their friends,” Ahrens said. “If they wish they can tackle one or two (names) on the suspense list.”

The state’s suspended voters list is controversial. Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s office has been enforcing a rule that removes the names of people who don’t provide proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, within 90 days. Kobach has repeatedly said the citizenship requirement will prevent voting by noncitizens and that 90 days is a reasonable deadline.

Michael Smith, a political science professor at Emporia State University, said research found the highest concentrations of suspended voters are in inner city neighborhoods and college towns, with high numbers of suspended voters living on or near the campuses of Kansas University and Kansas State University.

Mark Petersen, a political scientist who developed the course with his colleague Chris Hamilton at Washburn University, said it can be taught in a day or stretched over a week. The goal is to fit the course into the regular curriculum of a history or political science class.