[mvpel]

I was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, home of the University of Michigan, which has nearly 40,000 students during the school year. This number, at various points in time, can represent up to 40% of the permanent population of the city, and thus nearly 35% of the eligible voters in the city (75% of the roughly 110,000 permanent residents are voting age).

I don't know about you, but the idea of a bunch of young people, with no permanent ties to the city, who will be gone by June, having a decisive role - by the sheer numbers of their votes - in determining the taxes, policies, and politicians that the rest of us will have to live with the rest of the year and even after their four years are up and they move away, doesn't sit well with me.

[Boiler Plate]

Well I went to Purdue and the student body outnumbered the population of West Lafayette. Nobody seemed to care.

[Cold Heat]

The problem that I see with the judge's decision is that he ordered the roles purged of anyone from the college address. The point is, it was illegal to put them on the rolls in the first place.

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?

[CurlyDave]

the idea of a bunch of young people, with no permanent ties to the city, who will be gone by June, having a decisive role - by the sheer numbers of their votes - in determining the taxes, policies, and politicians that the rest of us will have to live with the rest of the year and even after their four years are up and they move away, doesn't sit well with me.

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...