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1,000 Republican Students Denied Right to Vote
Generation GOP - Arkansas ^
| Oct. 22, 2002
Posted on 10/24/2002 2:35:49 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
1,000 Republican Students Denied Right to Vote
Posted Tuesday, October 22, 2002 | Email a Comment
Student Voter Rights Denied By Clark County Judge
Democrats to Blame for Disenfranchisement of Registered Voters
Arkadelphia, AR In what is perhaps one of the most egregious acts of voter disenfranchisement in Arkansas history, Judge John A. Thomas a Clark County circuit judge today issued a decision to prohibit registered students from voting who attend Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University. The decision comes after a complaint was filed by Floyd Thomas Curry, an Arkadelphia resident and the son of a local Democratic candidate.
"We are absolutely outraged by this decision that will leave hundreds of students without a place to vote and without a voice," said Bryant F. Adams, political director of Generation GOP and a leader in the Ouachita Baptist College Republican organization. "This will not stand - the students and the state will not let this stand."
Students at Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University along with Generation GOP registered over 1,000 new students to vote, the majority of whom were Republican and supported Party candidates. Unofficial polls at Ouachita Baptist University suggest that the student body of over 3,000 students is more than 80% Republican in leaning.
"This injunction against students was a calculated move to keep Republican youth from voting," said R. Stuart Jones, chairman of Generation GOP. "It is extremely important to get young people interested in voting and in the electoral process - denying them their right to vote is not a proper introduction to democracy."
Generation GOP is working with several allied organizations including the College Republicans, Teenage Republicans and Young Republicans to organize a rally against the disenfranchisement of legal voters at Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University.
TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas
KEYWORDS: christians; democratictolerance; disenfranchisement; judicialmischief; republican
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
And if their home prior was Arkansas?
a.cricket
To: GovernmentShrinker
, much less whether the person who uses a registered name to vote is the same person who registered, or an impostor,
Tough job to do, but Louisiana began a process that at least helps identify the voter to some degree by the use of a picture ID before voting.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:16:54 PM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
And we all know how hard those are to get.
To: GovernmentShrinker
Well it's a start... better than nothing.... I don't remember what are the approved IDs over there but Drivers license is one.... or ID from the Drivers license bureau.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:21:02 PM PDT
by
deport
To: GovernmentShrinker
How the heck does one go about discovering it, when there's no way to tell whether people who register to vote are eligible to do so, much less whether the person who uses a registered name to vote is the same person who registered, or an impostor, after the real registrant moved out of the state? Here we have a name associated with an address, and vote based on Street address, proving our identity by producing our drivers liscence.
In any case, what I'm referring to, is the lack of prosecution when cases ARE found.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:27:38 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
This type of judicial theft steams me irrationally. It's always been ballots or bullets.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:30:46 PM PDT
by
kcar
To: lepton
Oh, and we sign a list with our registration signature in the next column.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:30:50 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: GovernmentShrinker
Actually, the upshot is that whether they can legally vote in Arkansas or in the county in question depends on their INTENT.A domicile is established by intent to return, yes, but paragraph (6) seems to indicate that it is not possible for students living in a given area in connection with their role as students to establish a new domicile in that location, as long as they remain students. Their domicile stays as it was before they began school.
Perhaps if they rented an apartment in town over the summer...
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:48:43 PM PDT
by
mvpel
To: another cricket
And if their home prior was Arkansas?Then they would be enrolled with the registrar of their home county, not the county where the school is located.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:49:32 PM PDT
by
mvpel
To: Otta B Sleepin
I always had to vote absentee when I was in college, for the same reason. I simply transferred my registration to my college address. Even in the dorms.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:55:42 PM PDT
by
Eala
To: Eala
That may have been legal in your state but it's evidently not legal in Arkansas.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:57:59 PM PDT
by
mvpel
To: mvpel
And if that is their home county?
a.cricket
To: lepton
And a competent, honest individual then compares all the signatures with the registration documents before the votes are counted, right? Oh, and when a signature is found to be invalid, how is that individual's vote identified and nullified?
To: another cricket
Then they wouldn't have needed to re-register at their college address.
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:58:39 PM PDT
by
mvpel
To: r9etb
IIRC, voter registration has to match up with your legal residence, and the legal residence is where the tax deductions say they live. Funny how they sent people into the dorms at my Califonria university to register voters. I still remember the amazement down the hall when, asked party affiliation, I answered: "Why, Republican of course!"
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posted on
10/24/2002 4:59:15 PM PDT
by
Eala
To: mvpel
Trouble is, this can leave many with no place to vote. Plenty of students' parents move after the kids have left for college, and the kids can't vote in the parents' new location if they have no intention of ever living there, never have lived there, and in some cases have never set foot in there.
This judge's ruling is going to be overturned pronto.
To: DCBryan1
If they are living where they are at school, they can re-register as they did and vote where they live currently.
I don't see that as illegal, just their choice.
I can think of more reasons for them NOT to vote home where they don't live now.
To: GovernmentShrinker
At our poll booths, there are a Dem and a repub at each table, and the signature comparison is made before voting. If there is a dispute, they go see a judge.
Again, my main point was that even when people are actually caught, they are rarely prosecuted. For example, how many of the hundreds actually demonstrated to have voted in both Florida and in New York were charged? I bet the answer is likely "none". If prosecution was common, there would be fewer who would attempt it.
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posted on
10/24/2002 5:04:07 PM PDT
by
lepton
To: GovernmentShrinker
The law is the law. The judge can't rewrite it no matter how sad the stories are. If the person's parents have moved, and he's never going to go back and live with them, then he's probably going to get an apartment somewhere over the summer and can register there.
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posted on
10/24/2002 5:06:25 PM PDT
by
mvpel
To: mvpel
That may have been legal in your state but it's evidently not legal in Arkansas. It seems that's the issue about to be litigated, isn't it?
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posted on
10/24/2002 5:07:27 PM PDT
by
Eala
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