College Students Vote

I'm making some assumptions here. I believe you're asking, if college student should be allowed to vote in an election, based on the location of where they are attending college.

I've thought about it and I would answer if the student met all the other qualifications necessary to vote, then yes they should be given to option to vote based on their colleges location.

 

I'm going to call the Grammar Police on you. Your question is missing a comma.

 

If their legal residence is at the college then they can register to vote there.

The bigger picture issue is that they shouldn't be voting at all.
In college they are under the influence of the radical academic agenda.
They need to graduate and get a job first so they have a better understanding of reality.

 

College Students should be permitted to vote (where they attend school).

College Students should be permitted to (vote where they attend school).

 

The problem is this. If I remember, some States dont even look at "absentee ballots" unless the election is close. I would say, as long as they are "in state" they should be able to vote there. An example. I was, when I went to school, about an hour from where I was "officially registered". Luckily my Freshman year was an off election year and the next year I had changed my official residence (could not get Married/Family housing the second year and had oldest already). Out of state? They should vote by mail in ballot.

I mean the real ideal solution is to have an actual e-database that collects votes. You verify on site that your FINGERPRINT matches and you have not voted yet. And can vote wherever is convenient. And it counts in your HOME district. We need to make voting easy and secure. Not restricted to "in this building, in this section, at this table".

 

I have not seen little of this "influence". I have been in a University setting since the late 1990s between actual classes, TA, Adjunct and finally Full Professorships. What I have seen are Professors cut loose if they espouse any political bent at all in the classroom.

Here is the reality I see. A lot of older people want to blame "College Brainwashing" for the fact that most younger people stopped caring about "how things have ALWAYS BEEN". They want a reason for why it needs to be that way, and usually don't take "Tradition or 'just how things were'." as an answer.

And then there is the slim group who just hate the "Young people these days show NO RESPECT" translated 'They don't obey me, their elder!'. I stand by this. My Grandmother has not seen her Great Grandkids since oldest was 6. She struck my child for being "disrespectful" in that my Grandmother was ranting and she said 'I am done with this' and walked away. She told me as MY elder she can strike my child. She now lost the privilege to see them.

 

That may apply on the right coast. Out here on the left coast I'm surrounded by radical liberal Californians.
If you don't make eye contact it's possible to walk among them without triggering a protest march.

 

The problem isn't where they vote, it's that not enough of them vote. If the student body got off its lazy collective ass and voted, then the Republicans wouldn't have a majority, nobody over 60 would get elected, America wouldn't have a circus clown in the White House and the government might actually function.
In fairness, its just as bad up here.

Sorry, back on topic. Up here, you vote wherever you legally reside. So if you are from Alberta and you attend college full time in Toronto, you obviously live in or near Toronto, so that's where you vote. It's pretty simple. I'm making an assuption that its not that different in the US.

I don't see the problem. If you attend school in Iowa, pay your tuition in Iowa, pay your taxes in Iowa, spend your money in Iowa, why shouldn't you be allowed to vote in Iowa? If the good people of Iowa (no doubt Republicans all) don't like it, they should tell the rest of the country that their out of state offspring are not welcome to study in Iowa.

This is just something more for the "right" to gripe about.

 

That actually could be. I hear, from former Law School friends, it is not as bad as some make it though.

 

Hence why I said the ultimate solution is some form of e-vote, where your vote is tied to a "home district" not a "gps location it was cast in".

 

I mean Antares did say that pretty directly. To paraphrase "Some colleges are in heavy R districts and Student votes would mean we might lose a district."