I don't see how this is stealing elections. As a general rule, college kids are not permanent residents. If they really have moved to these college towns, that's one thing, but if their actually permanent residence is their parent's house, which is usually the case, why would you want them voting in your local elections?
They're residents of those towns for four years. They live by the town rules and regulations, eat the town's food, drink the town's water, run the town's red lights. Why shouldn't they be able to vote?
why can't vote the same way overseas people/soldiers vote?
Do you remember how screwed up those absentee ballots are every election?
And of course it's voter disenfranchisement.
Disfranchisement (also called disenfranchisement) is the revocation of the right of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or rendering a person's vote less effective, or ineffective. Disfranchisement may occur explicitly through law, or implicitly by intimidation or by placing unreasonable registration or identification impediments in the path of voters.
While disfranchisement literally refers to the right to vote rather than the right to direct representation, various polities have adapted their voting systems to attempt to reduce the number of "unrepresented" voters.
In proportional representation systems which use election thresholds, parties which do not receive enough votes to meet the specified thresholds claim that their supporters have been disfranchised since their votes do not translate into any legislative seats
And, it's not just college kids. It's the poor and homeless, who may not be able to afford a photo id. It's the elderly, who not only may not be able to afford a photo id, but may not be able to go out and get one.
Plus. Do you know how hard it is to get an ID anymore?
And, ekg, did you really think this comment wasn't indicative of disenfranchisement?
They're "foolish," Speaker William O'Brien said in a recent speech to a tea party group. "Voting as a liberal. That's what kids do," he added, his comments taped by a state Democratic Party staffer and posted on YouTube. Students lack "life experience," and "they just vote their feelings." 