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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Republican Controlled States Make It Harder for College Students to Vote
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/03/01/us/ap-election-2020-college-crackdown.html[/quote]

College students can always vote absenteee.   In fact, that is the way it should work. [/quote]
Says who?[/quote]

They represent their home state, not where they are a temporary resident. [/quote]

The Census counts people where they physically reside and apportions Congressional seats and a lot of federal funding based on those population numbers. Students who spend four or more years in a college town spend and direct a lot of money into that town/county/state and have legitimate interest in city, county, and state laws and policies that affect their lives while they are there. They have every right under the law to decide which place they consider their residence for voting purposes - their college residence or their parents' home residence.

It has been established law for a long time that individuals are free to decide for themselves which place to declare as their legal residence, as long as they claim only one place. Only recently Republicans have tried to selectively disenfranchise college students by questioning their right to register with dorm addresses, by annually purging voter rolls in college towns, and by not locating voting locations near campuses. In a real democracy, each college campus would be a voting precinct and student registration and voting would be encouraged.

If you think that students should not be able to vote at their college residences, do you apply the same standard to military personnel and their families who are stationed in a state for only two or three  years at a time? Should they not be allowed to register and vote in state and local elections while they are there? Do you realize that a lot of military personnel change their legal residence to Florida or Texas when temporarily stationed there and then keep that as their legal residence long after they have left because those states do not have income tax? They vote absentee in FL or TX instead of where they live currently or where they are from originally in order to maintain the tax advantage. 
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