This is stupid.
Unless your college address is your PERMANENT address - i.e. you intend to make it your home even after you graduate from college - you should be voting absentee in your parents' district or wherever it is your permanent home is. If you don't know how to vote absentee or don't figure it out soon enough in advance, guess what? You're too dumb to vote.
And there's nothing wrong with requiring state or federally issued photo ID. I have no idea of what, say, Bryn Mawr College does when they take their photo IDs. For all I know, they pick homeless people off the street and stick their pictures on random cards. Why should I accept this as proof of anything? You can't use a college ID for check verification or many other things either.
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Originally Posted by christiangirl
However, when I got to college there was a huge push for students to register locally. "You will spend 9-12 months a year HERE for the next 4 years. THIS is your home now, don't let it slip through the cracks. Vote on the initiatives, vote for the leaders whose decisions will affect you." If schools continue to get students all passionate about their new homes then the states pass something like this so the majority can't vote in them (including for the president), that is going to be a problem.
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Fixed your ambiguous post. Whatever the school wants to do is not the state's business, or vice versa, and the states are the ones making the laws. I personally would question why the school is pushing this so much - it sounds like an indicator of a bad town/gown relationship and like the school figures it will be able to dupe the students into voting for things that aren't that great for the people who actually live there. The average Joes in college towns (I don't mean the profs and administrators) are usually on a MUCH lower socioeconomic level than the average students.