Digby: New Hampshire GOP Pushing for Laws to Keep College Students From Voting

[marmar]

Hullabaloo, via AlterNet:




New Hampshire GOP Pushing for Laws to Keep College Students From Voting


It seems that Republicans are determined to antagonize every demographic except conservative white males and the elderly. Do they think they will be able to win consistently this way?

New Hampshire's new Republican state House speaker is pretty clear about what he thinks of college kids and how they vote. They're "foolish," Speaker William O'Brien said in a recent speech to a tea party group.

"Voting as a liberal. That's what kids do," he added, his comments taped by a state Democratic Party staffer and posted on YouTube. Students lack "life experience," and "they just vote their feelings."

New Hampshire House Republicans are pushing for new laws that would prohibit many college students from voting in the state - and effectively keep some from voting at all...

The measures in New Hampshire are among dozens of voting-related bills being pushed by newly empowered Republican state lawmakers across the country - prompting partisan clashes akin to those already roiling in some states over GOP moves to curb union power.

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The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/513368/new_hampshire_gop_pushing_for_laws_to_keep_college_students_from_voting/

[HockeyMom]

1. My daughter went to school in Maine

and voted absentee ballot in NY. Of course, if their parents actually live in NH, I guess they couldn't get around it in that way.

This has to be unconstitutional. Maybe they will next say that Seniors cannot vote because they are too "senile"? Of course, if you are over a certain age you MUST be Conserative. It's only the young who are Liberal! Yeah, right.

[yurbud]

2. wow--the Democrats fell flat at energizing kids to vote in 2010, so the GOP is doing it for them

[salin]

3. what is this 1958? IIRC, the 18 yr olds can vote amendment occured during the Vietnam War

big issue - if you are old enough to fight in a war for your country, you should be old enough to vote.

Anti-intellectualism thrives and continues to be absurd.

[StarsInHerHair]

4. wow I hope the college kids remember this & make the NH Republiscum

an extinct party.