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Regardless of how long the students are there for it shouldn't affect their right to vote. If your suggesting that peoples votes on local matters should be conditional on them being resident for a period of time then you effectively removing the right to vote from anyone with a profession that requires frequent relocation. As for the suggestion that students are 'easily led' even if that where true (which I don't believe for a second) it's irrelevant, huge swathes of people are easily led by various media sources, you can't start denying voting rights on that basis. Students are no more or less likely to be led that anyone else. That people are supporting the notion that certain groups should have their vote denied them because you don't think they will vote the way you approve of is frightening to say the least.

As for my use of the word red-neck I apologize, it was meant in a humorous context and not intended to indicate any form of bias. My point however still stands.

Just as a note. Most undergraduate students do not refer to the college as 'home'. They exist there in a isolated (to the point of being near-gated) community for 8 out of the 12 months of the year and will be leaving within 4 years (generally speaking). They will not, by design of their lifestyle and general perspective be inclined to fend for those people who live in the local community 'full time'. Especially when in a lot of institutions the locals are seen as 'less than' the student body.
Students are easily lead, just as most people.
The exception with students is that they a very specific focus for being in the college community, to graduate. Many are financially strapped, and strapped for mental and emotional focus. This gives the college institution a fare amount of leverage over the student body. When large groups of tired people have have similar ambitions they become easy to guide.
Also many undergraduates do not have any concept of the cost of their decisions, in the US college system it takes a specific and concentrate effort to divorce the family resources from that of the student's upon entering the undergraduate environment. Many college students still don't understand what happens when you don't have healthcare or need to pay for everything on your own, this naivete as makes this focused group easy to guide.
A more disparate local population will have more difficult defending their interests against such a body. Which is a cost minded business. This cause an issue with the balance of power between the business and the local community.
The student should not have their votes discounted, they should vote where they are from.
Unless they live outside of the educational institution in the local community for a period of time that would grant them residence.

Belphegor wrote:
The student should not have their votes discounted, they should vote where they are from.
Unless they live outside of the educational institution in the local community for a period of time that would grant them residence.

Agreed.

Going back to the OP, the voter registrations of the students were challenged on the basis that they did not satisfy local regulations on voter registration.


I am naive to assume that local voter registration regulations would be struck down if they were in some way unconstitutional? For example, a local district would not get away with a regulation that said you had to have a Chinese father in order to vote.

Clearly voters do have to register somewhere and there has to be some restriction on their ability to register or they could register multiple times.

In the UK, the electoral roll for each constituency is updated yearly in the autumn (October 10th ?) If you move you are supposed to re-register at your new address. If you do not, the worst that happens is that you might be registered in Stornoway and living in Penzance, making it difficult to get to a polling booth.

That is correct.

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If I recall correctly, Georgia Southern has one of the highest gonorrhea rates in Georgia, maybe the U.S. Sign up at your own risk.