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03-15-11, 12:17 PM #61
Re: "Anti-Student voting bill"
Do I need any evidence that someone is trying to break into your house before suggesting you lock your door? This is a bigger issue than just this one situation. Let me give you a hypothetical: A county in Delaware wants to extend marital social services to domestic partnerships. Some national "pro-family" organization draws attention to it, and members decide they'd rather vote in Delaware than their home counties. Suddenly a whole lot of people are claiming "part-time residence" with little more than letters mailed to Delaware addresses to prove it (how else could you?). Those people are still only voting in one county, but it's not THEIR county. But the system doesn't have anything in place to stop it.
It's not about these particular students and whether they're up to anything dastardly. It's about being very careful about keeping potential loopholes closed.
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03-15-11, 01:05 PM #62
Re: "Anti-Student voting bill"
And that is an excellent and cogent example. If voting is the "cat's meow" and the "bestest most importantest thing ever" (and it is lauded to be and in IMO is ) then it ought to be protected. The right to vote is important. It should be treated as such.
It always seems that the arguments about validating registered voters prior to the vote gets cast as a racial or socioeconomic hurdle but I've never understood the reasoning behind those arguments.
Ensuring that people voting are registered to vote and are voting in the proper place should never be an issue.
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03-15-11, 03:16 PM #63Re: "Anti-Student voting bill"
Putting locks on my doors doesn't infringe on anyone's rights. Preventing people from lawfully voting does. That's an incredibly far-fetched hypothetical. Having some mail sent somewhere isn't going to do it. In general, you need a lease, utility bill, etc. We're not in danger of masses of people renting out apartments and changing their residency to change local elections. If they do choose to do that, it is their county.
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03-15-11, 03:17 PM #64Re: "Anti-Student voting bill"
With students though, it isn't that hard to prove that they are actually studying at the school (and not like that is something easy to "fake"). I've never lived on campus, but i would assume there is a way to prove residency in a dorm etc. as well.
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03-15-11, 03:18 PM #65Re: "Anti-Student voting bill"
I disagree. Not only is it highly unlikely (the fact that we didn't see this with Prop 8, even though the Mormons were very vested in the outcome is evidence enough), but people should be free to change their residency as they see fit. We're a free society, and are free to move within our country. If I choose to move to a new town, I can vote in that town.
It always seems that the arguments about validating registered voters prior to the vote gets cast as a racial or socioeconomic hurdle but I've never understood the reasoning behind those arguments.
Ensuring that people voting are registered to vote and are voting in the proper place should never be an issue.Last edited by WickedTribe; 03-15-11 at 03:24 PM.
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03-15-11, 07:17 PM #67
Re: "Anti-Student voting bill"
If thats the case, and there is a mechanism in place for students to declare residency at their school, thus vote in the precinct in which they reside, then this thread is done. No ones rights have been infringed or even inconvenienced for that matter, and the elected officials comments are simply a display of his bias against students... which is not a crime and does not infringe on anyones rights. The onus is on the student to meet the requirements. Dont want to follow protocol? Then dont vote, pretty simple really.
Ohhh.... there it is.
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