[jude24]

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.

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.

[Darnright]

>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.<

It is when their parents in a different state use them for tax advantage, even when they register to vote in a different precinct, or even a different state.

Requiring a temporary college resident to vote with an absentee ballot doesn’t keep that person from voting. They simply have to complete a form.