Posted on 04/05/2023 7:29:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A new law changing voting ID requirements makes it more challenging for out-of-state college students to vote.
House Bill 458 requires a photo ID to vote — meaning an unexpired Ohio driver’s license, a state ID card, U.S. passport or military card — so out-of-state college students must get an Ohio issued ID card if they want to vote in Ohio.
But getting an Ohio issued ID card would invalidate their driver’s license in another state.
(Excerpt) Read more at news5cleveland.com ...
Raising the required voting age to 24 would solve much of this.
I’m good with that. Most states require you to give up your DL when you move to, and get one in, another state.
Student are expected to remain citizens and vote in the state their parents and financial support comes from. No they don’t get a choice. See fafsa and pell grant rules.
Out of state college students should either establish legal residency in Ohio (renouncing their residency in their original home State) or vote by absentee ballot in their home State. Trying to have it both ways is thoroughly dishonest.
>But getting an Ohio issued ID card would invalidate their driver’s license in another state.
I fail to see the issue. If they want to vote in Ohio, become an Ohio resident. If they want to retain their non-Ohio DL, then don’t try to vote in Ohio.
Good.
Out-of-state college students should NEVER vote in the state where they temporarily reside - they should vote absentee at home.
If they have established domicile in their college state (driver’s license, car registration, car insurance, local address occupied on a 12 month or greater lease, and are employed full time or part time), fine.
If mommy and daddy in New Jersey are paying the bills, they keep an NJ driver’s license, and scoot home for holidays, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
My thoughts exactly. They can drive in any state with a valid license from any other state. The only way this is a problem is if they want to vote in both states.
When I was in school decades ago you couldn’t vote in your college town elections unless you had established permanent residency in the town like some upperclassmen or grad students.
From the article:
ACLU Ohio Deputy Policy Director Collin Marozzi says, “Out-of-state college students have just as much a right to vote in Ohio as any other eligible Ohio voter. “What’s at stake is this student population having a voice in their government. It is a fundamental aspect of American life for people to be able to have a say in their government.”
No, simply not true, Collin. They have to vote in their home of record, or CHANGE their citizenship to Ohio.
What you’re saying has never been a thing.
BTW, I was career military and you better believe I was “...really hampered for voting in person and my service put me between a rock and a hard place.”
So what...technically they shouldn’t be allowed to vote in Ohio as they truly aren’t a resident of Ohio if they are from out of state. And if they did “move” to Ohio for school they need an Ohio Drivers license anyway.
“But getting an Ohio issued ID card would invalidate their driver’s license in another state.”
You’re right. Why would this be a problem, unless they are trying to vote twice (illegally)?
But getting an Ohio issued ID card would invalidate their driver’s license in another state.
Well DUH that’s the point
Voter Ballot Moving Co. not impressed.
You be from Ohio or you be not
People who immigrate here, even legally, should be required to be CITIZENS for 18 years before they are allowed to vote, the same as those born here have to wait before they can vote.
All college students should be voting by absentee ballot in and for the elections in their true home district, not where there temporarily reside for school. THAT alone would reduce the Leftist influence in some college towns, as the non-academic related residents likely outnumber the academics in town, and could outvote them if the Left could not count on the student vote as well.
Good!
It should be nationwide!
You can only have one state of residence. College and the military have long been considered temporary relocation for which you don't change your permanent residence. You vote at your permanent residence even if you are at college for months or your military post for years. It has always been that way. You can decide that your college or military post is your permanent address, in which case you get a new driver's license, state tax bill and voter registration in your new state and surrender your old ID. This is not new. The only new thing is that ID requirements have tightened some in Ohio so you can't use a utility bill to prove residence anymore. This seems to imply a lot of people have been cheating in the past by voting at college without being an Ohio citizen and now they can't.
“But getting an Ohio issued ID card would invalidate their driver’s license in another state.”
Revoking the license from the former state is now the exception. State bureaucrats don’t care. Know of 4 cases in Florida where individual moved to another state and remained on FL voter roles for years.
so out-of-state college students must get an Ohio issued ID card if they want to vote in Ohio.
When I went to college in Baltimore I lived year around in the city.
I worked and was subject to Maryland income taxation.
Why would I want to have to file a New York State income tax return too?
I think a problem might arise if New York State was funding my education, but in my day it did not fund out-of-state college education as I recollect.
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