[JoeMomma]

The students were allowed to vote in the 2000 election, serve jury duty, and were included in the cencus.

You mean they voted illegally? Double shame on them.

Let's stop defending people who break the law in the name of Republican politics. We would blast Dems for doing the same. Let's hold a consistent standard.

The dependent students are legal residents of the counties their parents reside.

No amount of spin or "justification" or "The Dems do it" will change the fact that they were breaking the law.

Republicans never have defended lawbreakers' actions. Let's not start now.

[D. Miles]

If they voted in 2000 then a voter registration change of address was sent to their original place of voter registration, they were then purged from the voter rolls in that place. So, now they are double disenfranchised as they can't vote where they are registered and they have probably been purged from their home state rolls and it is too late to reregister to vote in their home state.

[sweetliberty]

I can't say for sure about THESE students, but I believe that the majority of students in colleges in Arkansas are FROM Arkansas, and I have discovered from experience that Republican registrations tend to get "lost" in the system, even when changing county of residence.

[3D-JOY]

In my experience a person may decide where his main address may be. School, home, relatives residence etc.

Applying for a drivers license is often the determining factor.

That is how Homesteading in places with a tax advantage is worked. License and registration if owning a car, and you are considered a resident.
Time spent in the location is impossible to estimate or prove.

Wonder how this would work if applied to the students?

I do not agree that they are all illegal.