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Different from, say, North Korea, or China in some way?
It is the Republic that is in reference to them both. However, now, you have gone over my head in the newly assigned homework, I have given to myself, in what the avalon projects have to offer me in education.
Fine. Let's prevent active duty military stationed overseas from voting too. That should bode well for the party.
Actually your example of military personnel is a prime example of why this is ok, although your conclusion is completely backwards..
No one is stopping college students or military personnel from voting, they both should vote in their home state (i.e. legally reside). Military personnel right now do, they mail in absentee ballots. College students do not, they vote where they are on the day of the elections, regardless of the state they live.
Do you think college kids are better than those in the military and deserve special treatment?
Different from, say, North Korea, or China in some way?
In those countries the people don't have much of a say and they know it. Here, politicians want us to believe we still have a say when, in reality, it's the money behind them that does all the talking. Obamacare was a shining example of voters being deliberately ignored, only this time the politicians didn't care how obvious it was.
They no longer represented us, but ruled over us.
The Fed is at war with the states by chipping away at their sovereignty. We might be witnessing the dismantling of the Republic.
I believe most states have absentee ballots for out of state residents. I don't normally side with the GOP, but I see nothing wrong with requiring residency in order to vote.
A referendum needs a percentage of the previous number of voters to get on the ballot.. If there is a town with 2,000 people, and 1,000 of them are students, you easily could get a referendum on the ballot like this
Doesnt have to be a statewide ballot. How about a very small municipality, which consists primarily of what we would call "a college town" and the small businesses in the region that support it..
It woudlnt dictate tuition rates, it would dictate who pays.. It would be indeed legal, in the same manner PELL pays for peoples college education..
No.. according to your argument they should be allowed to vote in the community even if they were not a residency right? Remember the thread, you are criticising the need to make them a resident.. And yes there are lots of small towns where students outnumber the residents..
Thats simply not true.. In most states, an assault/battery is committed when one person 1) tries to or does physically strike another, or 2) acts in a threatening manner to put another in fear of immediate harm. Many states declare that a more serious or "aggravated" assault/battery occurs when one 1) tries to or does cause severe injury to another, or 2) causes injury through use of a deadly weapon. Historically, laws treated the threat of physical injury as "assault", and the completed act of physical contact or offensive touching as "battery," but many states no longer differentiate between the two.
There was never an exception to allow you to beat your wife. They might have turned their back on the crime, but that doesnt mean it was legal.
You are making things up as you go along to try to pretend laws arent redundant..
What gives you the ability to judge what is worthy and what isnt? Dont you think the residents of a state should decide what is a valid law and what isnt? Another liberal who thinks they know better for others..
How does it not have to be a statewide ballot? Either it's a state institution, or it's a private institution. What kind of college are you envisioning?
Fine. Let's prevent active duty military stationed overseas from voting too. That should bode well for the party.
Who is being "prevented" from voting? Nobody!
Students have every right to vote in the state they were born, and should. Military have the right to vote (but somehow never get counted) in exactly the same way, and do. But don't let facts get in the way of your message.
The idea that college students should not be able to vote where they spend 8-9 months out of the year is absolutely ridiculous. This is about one thing and one thing only, trying to reduce turnout for college aged students because they happen to be very Democratic, hell the very sponsor of the bill in New Hampshire pretty much admitted as such.
Actually your example of military personnel is a prime example of why this is ok, although your conclusion is completely backwards..
No one is stopping college students or military personnel from voting, they both should vote in their home state (i.e. legally reside). Military personnel right now do, they mail in absentee ballots. College students do not, they vote where they are on the day of the elections, regardless of the state they live.
Do you think college kids are better than those in the military and deserve special treatment?
I think that if they go to school for longer than 6 months out of the year, their school should be considered their new residence. Just like with everyone else that has 2 homes.
However someone stationed in Germany isn't even in the US. Let's stop them from voting entirely. Shall we?
look we(you and I) have had many good debates, but think of it this way
would you want me a New York resident, coming out to CO. to attend a 120day course at Intermountain hazmat school, and because I have an apartment for those 120 days I vote not only on an absentee ballot for my New york reps/senators/judges..but also vote in the local election there....I dont think you would find that very fair...would you???
You would not be able to vote absentee in NY if you registered to vote in Colorado.
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Who's being told they cant vote?
