Posted on 10/24/2002 2:35:49 PM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
How did that happen? Voters on a roll have to be assigned to a distict and given a polling place. If the address has no district or polling place then they should never have been placed on the rolls.
Also, I wonder if there are some year round residents, like caretakers etc.
I cannot see how he can purge without giving a legal remedy to those who may not be registered under another address previously.
This would in fact be disinfranchisement as it is to late to register now. Correct?
But on the other hand a homeless person who stumbled off the bus 30 days before the election and will be gone within a week has the right to vote and the DOJ will help him enforce it.
As your post admits, the college students are going to be there four years--this is longer than many renters.
You can always move...
Still, it is not a permanent address. I was not a resident of Ft. Campbell, Ft Leonard Wood, Ft. Belvoir or West germany for that matter.
A permanent address is a place where you have a home or pay taxes. Students who live off campus and pay property taxes in a district are not prohibited. Their legal right comes from the taxes paid through their rents and utilities.
Bingo! And that is the crux of the problem; not that it is or isn't legal but that the law isn't being applied equally.
The problem is that they can't do that. Where are they going to get it? They are not registered in 2 locations. They are registered in Clark County. When they registered in Clark County they were purged from any previous county of registration. Clark County now refuses to allow them to vote there. The deadline to register anywhere in Arkansas passed on October 7. So they are screwed unless the decision is overturned.
The Democrats stand for nothing except treason, power, and illegal millions of dollars stolen by the leadership. Think of the millions taken by DNC head Terry McAulfee (insider trading of Global Crossings and many other crooked deals), the Clintons ("book advances," pardons for sale, & God knows what else), and the "Revrund" Jackson (extortion of major firms).
And in some at least, they don't even have to do that.
Sweet, if they were from that county they would have to sneak home and vote where they usually do. Believe me, I certainly would not want the 7,000 kids at UAM voting for local ordinances in our 9,000 person city. It would be a huge screwup. I see the reason for the law.
However I am concerned about the ruling. I don't see how he can screw with the rolls this close to the election. He could in fact disinfranchise a voter and that is really bad.
I suspect this ruling will be overturned and a new one issued, but the fact is that the law will stand.
That, coupled with the fact that the law is not being equally applied is my concern. You can't have it both ways, but that is Rat style. I'm betting that the only reason that even the Rats in other parts of the state are hollering about this decision is because they DON'T want to see that law enforced statewide since MOST college students pad THEIR numbers and they realize that a handful of conservative students are irrelevant in the big picture.
Exactly!
I'll bet the practice of quietly and illegally registering the kids at the college was going along just fine until 1,000 republican registrations hit the county clerks desk!
Must have been a shock to the system. Of this, I have no doubt!
From the DNC.
This would in fact be disinfranchisement as it is to late to register now. Correct?"
That was exactly the point.
My husband is retired military and we always registered to vote in his home district and then voted absentee. When we bought a home we registered where we lived. Military have to have a permanent home address and should never consider base housing a permanent home address. We were also allowed to keep his home state licence plates on our cars.. We filed out income taxes in his home state as well. It all changed only when we became home owners and changed his permanent home address to our new home. College students probably do the same thing. They should have registered at home and applied for an absentee ballot in time to vote. The dorm is not your permanent home.
Someone goofed big time by not explaining this to the students.
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