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?
There are ways to establish residence, but living in a dorm or sharing an apartment with 6 other guys and a beer can collection isn't the way to do it. I'm not sure I understand what your point is really. I find it hard to imagine you support some sort of wandering tourist voting/
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."
Photo ID? I doubt there is a college kid without a photo id. Sometimes more than one with different names and ages on it.
