WP: Students Decry Registration Problems: Dems Allege "Scare Tactics"

[DeepModem Mom]

Students Decry Registration Problems
Democrats Allege 'Scare Tactics' to Suppress Young People's Poll Turnout

By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 27, 2004; Page A15


....Reports of college students being discouraged from registering by local officials in a host of college towns are growing more common in the Granite State, where Kerry and President Bush are locked in a tight race. The issue of student eligibility has also been a source of contention in other states, including Virginia, Texas and Maine.

Democrats allege a systematic program of "scare tactics" designed to suppress turnout among one of their key constituencies. Republicans say they will be monitoring out-of-staters at the polls on Nov. 2 to ensure that state election laws designed to prevent voter fraud are enforced....

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The Republican-dominated (NH) legislature passed a law last year that requires people whose identification indicates they are from out of state to sign an affidavit that shifts their "domicile" to New Hampshire before they can register to vote....

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An informational posting on a state election Web site advises college students that changing their domicile requires them to re-register their cars within 60 days and to apply for a new driver's license. It also warns that, in some instances, health and auto insurance coverage, tax status and scholarships could be affected.

Democrats have called the new law the "Voter Intimidation Act" and have been reminding students that they can easily change their domicile back after the election. "The consequences they describe, such as for financial aid and so forth, apply only to a small fraction of students," said Judy Reardon, a senior adviser with the Kerry campaign here....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A451-2004Oct26.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. kick

[noonwitch]

2. I always voted absentee ballot when I was in college

I didn't want to change my driver's license and registration from my parents' address. When I got a car, insurance rates were much higher in K-zoo than in Kentwood. It was also just easier to do it that way, than to change everything once a year when I moved to a different dorm room, or apartment.

I also drove home to vote once or twice in school millage elections.

[Zorra]

3. Ya know, republicans really are the worst group of people in America.

They are just creeps.

Fascist, anal retentive, horrible, rotten anti-American creeps.

It must really suck to be a republican.

Ick.

[Eloriel]

4. That's because

they really want to win (it's the "only" thing, remember), and all they've got are lies and underhanded, anti-democratic (small D) tactics. That's all they've got. If Americans knew the truth about them and what they're up to, most of them would have absolutely none of it (most = everyone but the sociopaths and other fascists).