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?
Do you remember how screwed up those absentee ballots are every election?
And of course it's voter disenfranchisement.
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."
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putting what he said aside..
and if they truly 'live' there fine.. they are residents.. but most don't, they 'visit' for a few weeks then go home for Christmas, then visit again for a few weeks and then go home for spring break.. visits again and then go home for summer.. so no, they don't get to decide what the locals should/shouldn't do..
and I'm not talking about old people, poor people or homeless people so don't add them to my agreement with this bill.. I agree that the college kids who don't reside, year round, in the town shouldn't be able to vote in that town.. it could just as easily be an overwhelming religious school deciding for the local around them who are not as religious but are outnumbered by those college visitors..
and it doesn't give an accurate picture of that town and whether it's liberal or conservative.. if it's most conservative but the 'liberal' college forces it's 'liberal agenda' upon the people against their will.. well, that's just as wrong if it's the other way around.. and besides, that just forces the conservative to take over census numbers and redistrict more which hurts liberals more than this law would.. no one is stopping them from mailing their vote into their home state.. that would be Disenfranchisement, this is just good politics no matter who you are..
