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Joe, I think that you're misreading the story. Check out the comments from both Dem. and Rep. state leaders at #46:

Huckabee said as many as 1,000 college students "have essentially been disenfranchised from their right to vote."

Huckabee said the ruling "is absolutely one of the worst things that's happened in Arkansas politics in a long time. I think it shows why we have to see some real changes in the one-party fiefdom that we have operated under."

State Treasurer Jimmie Lou Fisher, Huckabee's Democratic opponent in the race for governor, called the decision "appalling."

Secretary of State Sharon Priest, the state's chief election officer, urged the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union to oppose the ruling by Clark County Circuit Judge John A. Thomas. "Three words: It is unconstitutional," said Rita Sklar, executive director of the state ACLU. "The right of college students to vote in the place where they attend college is well-established under case law."

I guess each state laws are different. I though they were all the same in that regard. Sorry if I offended anyone here. I thought it was standard law in all states.

If Arkansas lets college students register and declare residency like that, more power to them and more power to the students who were legally registered under Arkansas law. Let's hope they get their rights rightfully returned to them. Both Dems and Repubs are condemning the decision, it appears.

I remember from my college days I was told that I couldn't register in the state I was going to college, and had to vote absentee in my home county.

Thanks for setting me straight. I'm humbled now. :)