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You guys might try the Nevada option. Basically any DL or ID card photo goes to the voter rolls. But if you show up to vote with out one they simply take your picture and add it to the voter rolls.
Seems lie a reasonable compromise. may well lose in NV as it costs money and no one is able to tell what problem it will solve.
We are against voter ID laws because they disenfranchise many of the poor who vote. And before you even respond, not all poor people are on food stamps or welfare. Many states are required a new state issued ID and not just a drivers license. Some states are making it so that college students can only vote in their home towns and not at college.
In all seriousness, how are they disenfranchise?
"Some states are making it so that college students can only vote in their home towns and not at college"
"Some states are making it so that college students can only vote in their home towns and not at college"
Do you have a problem with that? If so why?
I should think a college student is of majority age and is a resident of where he or she chooses. While a state may have a regulation governing tuition that does not extend to residency. In NV if you work or have a car instate for more than 30 days you are considered a resident...and they want the high registration fee for your vehicle. You can register to vote when you register your vehicle.
I should think a college student is of majority age and is a resident of where he or she chooses. While a state may have a regulation governing tuition that does not extend to residency. In NV if you work or have a car instate for more than 30 days you are considered a resident...and they want the high registration fee for your vehicle. You can register to vote when you register your vehicle.
Actually, it depends!
What state issued the student's Drivers License?
In what state and/or precinct is the student registered to vote?
In what state and/or precinct is the student eligible to request an absentee ballot?
If the student is going to school at, let's say, the University Of Washington, but has a Drivers License from Ohio, and their car is registered in Ohio, and they are registered to vote in Ohio, they can request an absentee ballot from Ohio, but they can NOT vote in Washington.
Surely, if said student is smart enough to go to college, he/she is smart enough to figure out where and how to vote!
And, of course, who and what to vote for or against!
Actually, it depends!
What state issued the student's Drivers License?
In what state and/or precinct is the student registered to vote?
In what state and/or precinct is the student eligible to request an absentee ballot?
If the student is going to school at, let's say, the University Of Washington, but has a Drivers License from Ohio, and their car is registered in Ohio, and they are registered to vote in Ohio, they can request an absentee ballot from Ohio, but they can NOT vote in Washington.
Surely, if said student is smart enough to go to college, he/she is smart enough to figure out where and how to vote!
And, of course, who and what to vote for or against!
And my point was and is that it is the student's choice. Not the state's.
And if the student makes a single dime working in NV...both the license and registration have to be NV. Whether he votes here or not.
We are against voter ID laws because they disenfranchise many of the poor who vote. And before you even respond, not all poor people are on food stamps or welfare. Many states are required a new state issued ID and not just a drivers license. Some states are making it so that college students can only vote in their home towns and not at college.
Good to hear the attempt to stop college students from voting both at home and at college. Being a college student should give the kid an opportunity to work through the logistics. They can visit home during an early voting, or use an absentee ballot. If they can't figure out an absentee ballot then maybe they can spend a couple of years in Afghanistan to figure out the value of voting absentee. Which itself leads to disenfranchisement for some military. Does Congress care?
If ACORN can get voters registered multiple times, they sure as the dickens can figure out how to get a voter a Voter ID.
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