Posted on 10/24/2002 2:35:49 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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.
This ruling is because the kids are registered to vote at their home, and can't vote where they go to school.
Oh but you said they are Republicans..........never mind.
The decision comes after a complaint was filed by Floyd Thomas Curry, an Arkadelphia resident and the son of a local Democratic candidate.
demoRAT reasoning.
Anyone know if there were legal grounds for challenging the students' registration. Perhaps legal residency was in question for students who hold legal residence out of state?
What was the complaint?
Of course, this didn't stop the liberal students of Berkely from deciding the fate of the city where they attend school, so why should it here?
Ah. I wondered if that was it. I always had to vote absentee when I was in college, for the same reason.
It can be assumed that the injunction was granted because of some question over the legal residency status of these students in the state of AR. Perhaps they are being told that as residents of other states, they are registered to vote there and required to vote there.
If they weren't legal residents of AR, then they can't be legally resistered there. If that's the case then perhaps the suit brought by the Dims has some merit. (As much as it pains me to say so.)
IIRC, voter registration has to match up with your legal residence, and the legal residence is where the tax deductions say they live.
I'm willing to bet that all of these kids show up on their parents' income tax forms.
I agree. All of the "outrage" is just partisan spin to somehow defend illegal registration of voters. Calm down and listen to the reasoning. It appears to be sound judgement. It's the law.
Students who have legal residence in another state cannot vote where they go to college.
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