Posted on 08/30/2008 9:55:29 AM PDT by Darnright
Virginia ping
Voting is determined on your residence. Dorms are temporary housing for students whose residences, most likely, are where their parents live. If these college kids are so darn smart, you’d think they have heard of absentee ballots.
This was how the Kollege Kiddie Krusaders got rid of J.D. Hayworth in Arizona and replaced him with the lowest rated representative currently serving in the House. They’d do the absentee ballot from where they came while still voting a few times in Arizona. “One man, one vote.” Except for college kiddies. They like to vote and can do so as many times as they want. We don’t want to hurt their feelings.
“Allowing students to vote as residents of the county in which they study makes no sense whatsoever, and doing so has the potential to radically alter local elections.”
You could not be more correct. Take for example, the County of Santa Cruz California. Politically controlled by the transient student population.
If the democrats get away with this atrocity, it could well change the outcome of my local congressional race. UVA is in my district, a fairly solid conservative area, except for Charlottesville.
I am getting alarmed, to say the least.
Students I talk to claim they will live in Blacksburg forever (despite) the lack of jobs available after graduation. They use this claim as a justification for registering to vote in Montgomery County.
I am convinced that VT voter fraud is the reason we’ve been stuck with Boucher for so long.
We don't want to get into the business of figuring out why people are where they are.
As a member of the military, for instance, I chose to register in the town where I rented an apartment, rather than vote absentee in the town where my parents lived. (That's still technically my home of record, though - and probably will be until I leave, unless I buy a house.)
I should be very annoyed if my home state said, "We don't care that you're living here at least 3 years. You can't vote here." I do pay State taxes.
I'm sure the Obama camp will be doing just the exact opposite to the military voters though. Probably declare that they must register in person at their home polling place to qualify to vote even if they're in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Prepare to be let down again, like you were in 00 and 04.
I am getting alarmed, to say the least.
So cause a scene. If after the election you think this has occurred (and by the looks of it, it is and the university officials don't seem to care), get together with some other likeminded folks, hire a lawyer and get the voter registration rolls. Get any kind of public record you can.
I'm serious.
We should probably start challenging double registrations ahead of time. Can that be done?
>As a member of the military, for instance,<
Being in the military puts you in a whole different category, with different rules, than does your being a student at a college or university. In the latter case, in most instances you are still dependent on your parents for tuition and for much of your living expenses. If you are in the military, you are responsible for yourself.
>If you are in the military, you are responsible for yourself.<
And I forgot to add, you are serving your country. BTW, thank you!
So long as students only vote in one place, I don’t see a problem. I’ve been out of college 15 years and I still find it annoying that so many locals in college towns are perfectly willing to accept studens’ money and labor in their local economies, but don’t want them to have a say in anything political. A lot of college towns would be insignificant backwaters were it not for their local colleges, the jobs they provide, and the money that they and their student populations pump into the local economy and tax bases. Besides, a liberal vote in Charlottesville, Blacksburg, or whatever college town is one less liberal vote somewhere else.
There was a story a few months back about some “college” that was going to issue “zero balance” electrical bills to all dorm students so they could register to vote in that state.
How are we preparing to fight the inevitable voter fraud?
Not all college students are dependent on their parents for tuition or living expenses. But even so, their financial arrangements are none of the State's business.
Finances are not a predicate to the right to vote. If it were, housewives - who have zero income - would not be eligible to vote. Should my (for now, hypothetical) wife, who is entirely defendant on my income, be barred from the right to vote because she has chosen to stay at home?
Constitutionally, there are only two requirements for the right to vote: residence and age. We shouldn't change that.
Alarmed because of voter fraud, or because you might be out-voted?
BTW: UVA is a beautiful institution. I had to be there for a few months earlier this year. I was impressed, and liked the Charlottesville area.
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