On April 24, the New Hampshire Senate Election Law Committee passed HB 1264 by a vote of 3-2. It tightens rules for voter registration. It says that anyone who registers to vote in New Hampshire, and who has a drivers license issued by another state, must obtain a New Hampshire drivers license within 60 days. See this story. Many students who attend college in New Hampshire, and who choose to vote in New Hampshire, could be affected by this bill if it becomes law.
Again —
14 Amdt, Sec. 1 First sentence
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
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NO duration times in such sentence.
NO ***reside*** in State = NOT a citizen in such State = NOT an Elector-Voter in such State — in SANE States.
Difficult only for the many New Age govt INSANE MORONS – esp. in small population States ???
How many students *reside* in other States/Canada/overseas and show up in a NH school/college each day ???
Poll tax!
This situation could be easily argued both ways. In national elections, students (and military dependents)in a state other than their home state should certainly be encouraged to vote and making it easier to do so where they are promotes that. On the other hand, when local elections (city, county, school board, water district & similar) the students from out-of-state do not generally have much, if any knowledge of local concerns and their voting in such elections could possibly lead to election of candidates not in conformance with local concerns diluting the influence of full-time residents which would be quite unfair. The same could apply even to in-state students, etc.. For instance, a student from Imperial Co. in southeast Calif. would not be consistent with local residents of Del Norte Co. in the states’ northwest corner – and vice versa. This subject is a difficult quandary since it would not be neither practical nor a good idea to have to maintain separate voter rolls for federal, state and local elections.
HB 1264 says nothing of the sort.
A resident of New Hampshire who operates a motor vehicle must have a driver’s license. They must obtain a New Hampshire license within 60 days of establishing residency.
If the federal government issued ID’s, a voter would automatically be registered to vote in a state when they update their address.
How many TYRANT regimes have issued IDs —
aka — Show us your papers !!!!
What regime is the 666 regime ???
I realize HB1264 isn’t saying that. I was just being philosophical over the issue. A student at the University of New Hampshire in Durham should have ability to vote in Federal elections made easier but it that student is from Honolulu, or Miami, or Detroit, or Kansas City, I’m not so sure they should be voting for Durham City Council which would be enabled if they have to get a New Hampshire DL to vote more easily.
@Gene,
The blog entry stated that “it [the bill] says that …” I was responding to that.
If the student’s parent claim the student as an exemption on their tax return, I see no reason why they shouldn’t vote in federal elections in Honolulu, Miami, Detroit, or Kansas City.
You may actually be making the case for a property qualification, poll tax, or durational requirement for voting in local elections. No representation without taxation. Perhaps 10 hours/month service.
Incidentally, 70% of Durham’s adult population is between 18 and 24. I went checking for town council members, and came across a video of an old woman and a young woman, who was possibly of college age.
The old woman began by saying that she got involved in town government when college students were renting in her residential area. She said that they had different hours and values, and so she became involved on the housing commission, and implemented various requirements (sound ordinances, parking requirements, quiet hours, etc., I’m not sure of the details. but I think that was the type of things). But then she went on to say they created requirements for rental housing, etc., and then ran for the town council. She also said she valued the diversity of the area due to the university.
The young woman began speaking in a high-pitched young voice, and said that she was raised in New Hampshire (she mentioned a couple of places, but used a pronunciation that would take a native to decipher). She said that she was living in the area, when she met her husband of 25 years (she only looked and sounded young). He was a submariner, stationed at the Portsmouth shipyards and they lived throughout the country in obvious places. After he was out of the Navy, they lived in California, when she became homesick, so they moved to Pennsylvania and now Durham, so she was actually a short-term resident.
How many folks *learn*/*work* in one regime and *reside* in another — since Adam and Eve ???
Large example — zillion daily commuters into New York City — esp. *reside* in CT and NJ and even in foreign regimes — Canada, UK, France, etc.
Are ANY of them claiming to have the right to vote on anything in New York City — esp. the gerrymander New York City Council ???
@DR, the zillion daily commuters go home to their place of residence most nights.
I doubt that very many of them reside in Canada, UK, France, etc., and commute on a daily basis.