Judge orders Fairfax to allow George Mason University students to vote after registration

[TexasTowelie]

Judge orders Fairfax to allow George Mason University students to vote after registration applications were rejected


A federal judge ruled Friday that Fairfax County must allow 171 George Mason University students to vote next week after their voter registration applications were rejected for providing a generic university address.

U.S. District Court Judge Rossie Alston ordered the county to allow students who submitted their application on or before Oct. 15 to correct their address information, giving them until 5 p.m. Saturday to do so.

If the students miss that deadline, they must be allowed to vote Tuesday with a provisional ballot at the university’s Merlen Hall precinct if they provide their specific addresses beforehand, the judge ruled.

Earlier this week, the nonprofit Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law sued the county’s election officers in U.S. District Court in Alexandria after the students were told that the generic George Mason addresses on their applications made them ineligible to vote in Fairfax.

Read more: https://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/judge-orders-fairfax-to-allow-george-mason-university-students-to/article_5c66a730-525a-52b0-b871-b3397495416c.html

[sprinkleeninow]

1. And so it continues... n/t

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. Hmmm.

I'll have to check with my son who is a student there and ask him how his voting is going.

Perhaps his being 36 years old (he's a grad student) makes a difference.

Somewhat related: Many years ago, before that son was born, we (his dad and I) moved to Minneapolis, and we both enrolled in a summer class at the University of Minnesota. Back then summer students paid the same tuition, regardless of where they were from. A couple months later, we enrolled to take fall classes, and were automatically assumed to be Minnesota state residents, because our summer school address was in Minneapolis. Hooray! No need to wait a full year to become state residents.

I will also point out that being an adult, as in over 21, is a huge help in these kinds of things.

[Recursion]

3. Does GMU even have dorms?

I thought it was a commuter college

[4139]

4. 6,000, dorm students... I'm 1 mile from mason

[Recursion]

6. Huh, thanks (nt)

[erronis]

5. Interesting. Isn't GMU known as a fountain of RW pedagogery?

Koch funded, Scalia named.

Who wouldn't want young people (typically more liberal) to vote?

Strange, because Fairfax County (AFAIK) is pretty blue, even though it lies close to the heart of the current beast.