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Let's limit that Ron Paul vote, 'eh?
"Taking aim at the student vote; N.H. legislator causes a stir with plan to limit franchise of temporary residents" by Sarah Schweitzer, Globe Staff / February 6, 2011
It might be the ultimate town-gown issue.
Are college students residents of the towns where they attend school, or are they interlopers, merely stopping in along the way with little vested interest in local affairs?
The controversial question has been posed in New Hampshire, where proposed legislation would take away students’ right to vote in their college town unless they lived there before enrolling and intended to stay — a move that could have possible overtones for the first-in-the-nation primary.
Related: Jockeying by states snarls GOP primary plans
No state can out-primary New Hampshire
Already, the weeks-old legislation is getting serious attention from Republicans and stirring angry responses from Democrats who say the bill is a thinly veiled effort to bar liberal-leaning students from casting ballots. Election law specialists in New Hampshire and beyond have offered criticism — the proposal, they say, flouts court rulings on the question — while college students are crossing party lines to protest the bill....
Which tells you it is ABOUT MORE than the FALSE DEMOCRAT-REPUBLICAN FRAMING the agenda-pushing paper promotes!!
College student voting dramatically expanded in 1971, when the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 years of age to 18 in response to concerns that 18-year-olds could be drafted to serve in the Vietnam War but had no electoral say....
All AmeriKan voters feel like 18-year-olds these days.
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Related: Top politicians reach out to N.H. Tea Party locals
Hard turn right worries GOP moderates in N.H.
Bachmann visits N.H., slips up on Revolution
Also see:
- Lawmaker opposes Mount Washington trademark
- CONCORD, N.H. State may cut funding of public television (Boston Globe)
- CONCORD, N.H. House panel to vote on gay-marriage bills (Boston Globe)
- CONCORD, N.H. Good year predicted for syrup collection (Boston Globe)
- MANCHESTER, N.H. Strained by fires, Red Cross needs money
- EXETER, N.H. Carbon monoxide levels close skating rink (Associated Press)
- Ex-Devens official to lead N.H. prison (Associated Press)
- MANCHESTER, N.H. Brockton man arrested in home invasion
- CONCORD, N.H. Slaying prompts death penalty proposal (Associated Press)
- In N.H., a call to expand the death penalty
- N.H. farmer wins early release after firearm felony conviction
- N.H. farmer happy to be home after gun sentence eased
- N.H. labor bill met by strong resistance
- PORTSMOUTH, N.H. Educator says students ‘meanest ever’
- N.H., Vt. turn to students for research
- CONCORD, N.H. Lynch opposes repeal of kindergarten law (Boston Globe)
- CONCORD, N.H. Man sues electric utility over wife’s death (Boston Globe)
- House considers changes to N.H. school funding
- CONCORD, N.H. Ayotte targets contractors aiding Taliban (Boston Globe)
- COLEBROOK, N.H. Snowmobile crash blamed on speeding (Boston Globe)
- EPSOM, N.H. Woman dies when snowmobile hits post
- Avalanche sweeps man down N.H. mountain
- NEWPORT, N.H. 4 rescued from house as river rises (Associated Press)
- CONCORD, N.H. Lynch proposes closing some rest areas (Boston Globe)
- N.H. House votes to end participation in cap-and-trade
- N.H. jurors face choice on insanity defense
