Voting on campus: At Haverford College, they want to, but can’t (Snowflake Trail of Tears)

Philly.Com ^ | 09/15/2018 | Susan Snyder and Holly Otterbein,

[Kid Shelleen]

Haverford College and some nearby residents for years have been trying to get a polling place closer to or on the grassy Main Line campus.

Students — most of whom do not have cars and who make up the majority of voters in the precinct — must travel about a mile and a half, partially on a road without sidewalks,
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the lawyer representing petitioners, alleges the reason is more sinister: a largely Republican county government that is far from eager to make voting easier for a Democratic-leaning college campus.

[Kid Shelleen]

I know there are some Freepers that attended Haverford College. The college is right next to Merion Golf Club and is in one of the country's most beautiful neighborhoods.
The elite geniuses that want to change the world and rule over you can not figure out how to vote so they want to exercise their white privilege and get their own polling place.
* The 2018 tuition/fees is 70K.

[a fool in paradise]

>>must travel about a mile and a half

so they can run there in under 10 minutes or walk there in under 20.

[MrEdd]

I take it the local democrats are too dim to rent a building a few doors down from the polling location and hold a kegger?

Their target demographic would be there somehow.

[a fool in paradise]

How long do the “students” live in the community? Do any of them pay out of state rate or do they all claim local residency year round?

Are they planning to stay in the community after they graduate or drop out?

[Mears]

I guess these “geniuses” never heard of absentee ballots.

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[digger48]

I’d crawl through a mile of broken glass and swim across a half mile of a turpentine river to vote against any and all Democrats.

[Nevadan]

A mile and a half away? What about Uber? I’m guessing that these students have no problem finding a way to get to their favorite bars and restaurants. Walking a mile and a half would mean they don’t need to go to the gym that day. What about voting by absentee ballot? You don’t have to even leave the campus for that. I’m not buying the crisis mode tears.

[Mogger]

Most of them should be voting absentee by mail in their home towns.

When I was a high school graduate, resident of Vermont and in the Air force, stationed in various states and overseas, somehow I had enough brains, knowledge and ambition to send a post card to my town clerk in Vermont requesting an absentee ballot for every election.

She mailed it to me, I voted and mailed it back. Very simple.

If a college student who is not a resident of the town their college is in is so stupid, lazy, or ill informed that they can't do that, they have no business being in college.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Every student who votes in a local election should have their voting history in their actual hometown subject to inspection. I suspect many vote absentee from Mom’s address and also vote to interfere with the local economy where they attend school.

[Fungi]

A mile and a half? What wimps! I walk six miles everyday, then I go to my workout. How pathetic.

[Mogger]

If a student at Haverford College is a resident in the dorms, that means they are probably not a resident of the town the college is in.

So they have no business voting there, as being non residents they would be voting on local issues of a town in which they are not a legal residents.

[a fool in paradise]

Yep, and some students admit to voting via more addresses than just that

[MayflowerMadam]

As someone told me the other day, “When I was a kid we had to trudge through nine feet of shag carpet to turn the channels.”

[a fool in paradise]

>>What wimps! I walk six miles everyday, then I go to my workout.

/seinfeld

[Kid Shelleen]

but part of walk is on a road without sidewalks. It sounds very dangerous. Maybe they should hire crossing guards or get some 6th graders to show them how to cross the street safely. /S

[lizma2]

Since when do students get to vote in districts that are not technically their legal districts??? This is pro ruling elite garbage.

Do absentee.

[SolidRedState]

I have to drive 10 miles to vote. And 10 miles back.

I know people who have to drive further.

A mile and a half, walking or not, no big deal!

But, these college kids should be filing absentee ballots in their HOME DISTRICT!

[DoodleBob]

As someone told me the other day, “When I was a kid we had to trudge through nine feet of shag carpet to turn the channels.”

I know a guy who went to college in the 1970s. He said he was so low on funds one semester that he could barely afford to eat. However, the local Hare Krishnas held a YUGE Sunday free meal (vegetarian, of course) and all you had to do was sit through 1 hour of their preaching, etc.

In short, he bit the bullet and partook of their weekly food/proselytizing combo for about one full year. While he had a stack of their magazines ("Back to Godhead") in his room, he remains a steadfast Christian today.

Further, when I was in college, Frank Zappa was touring and during intermission he had the League of Women Voters in the hall, registering people to vote. I changed my registration from college (which I'd made my permanent mailing address) to home but saw LOTS of people who NEVER registered. Nonetheless, they went through the process.

My guess is these are all pod-eating, DNC-leaning kids. The young Deplorables wouldn't give up so fast.

[eclecticEel]

Problem solved.

[Graybeard58]

When I was a high school graduate, resident of Vermont and in the Air force, stationed in various states and overseas,

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Yep, me too. Just curious, when were you in the A.F.?

Me 1963 - 1967. Enlisted in Mo.