Indiana GOP Lawmaker Wants To Block Out-Of-State Students From Voting
Source: The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Indiana lawmakers are debating Wednesday on legislation that would prohibit students who pay out-of-state tuition from voting in the Hoosier State -- and that may be unconstitutional.
The bill, introduced by state Rep. Peggy Mayfield (R-Martinsville), would amend the Indiana Code regarding elections to specify that "a person does not gain residency in a precinct into which the person moves for educational purposes if the person pays a nonresident tuition rate."
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Specifically, Rowland said that to obtain in-state tuition -- and, thus, the right to vote under Mayfield's bill -- a student must first be a resident of Indiana for a full year. The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states cannot set such an extended time barrier to voting, she said.
"The courts, including the Supreme Court in a case from the 1970s, have said very plainly that states cannot create restrictions on obtaining voting residency that are longer than 30 days," Rowland told The Huffington Post. "So 365 days is pretty clearly in violation of that constitutional law."
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benld74
(9,904 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)and yes, they are that stoopid, but their stoopid is backed by wealth and power. As they get redder and stoopider, more blue state money will be sent to them than they pay in taxes. Their educational system will become 3rd rate. Life spans will decrease, crime rates will increase, teen pregnancies, divorce rates and poverty will soar, church attendance will spike upward at the same rate as sexually transmitted diseases. It really is a shame that after a conflict of 150 years, the Confederacy is finally winning.
democraticinsurgent
(1,157 posts)Which means the jerks are throwing out the most insane legislation this year. Yesterday, the senate passed a bill requiring the teaching of cursive writing in schools.
They've also introduced bills requiring school prayer, allowing students to carry guns on college campuses, and other madness which I can't recall at the moment. The Indiana Dems had a majority in the house a few scant years ago but they let it get away.
Now Indiana is screwn.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)jaysunb
(11,856 posts)scary. The need for power and control over the majority is a serious problem for the near term future of our country.
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)If that actually do this, then It's quite simple: Any non-white Protestant student, who is viewed as a potential "threat" to the Hoosier Way of life should immediately transfer out of the state. Hurt these Stalinist Thugs where it counts and cripple their university system across the board. I love to see the loss in college sports revenue, let alone the tuition and room board losses with a mass exodus out of the state.
It amazes me that so many right-wing elected officials can so blatantly disregard the US Constitution.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)The RW aristocrats have to find a way to keep people "from" voting.
Giving people the ability to vote, helping to make it easy for people to vote, encouraging people to get out the vote is passé. Thwarting the right for Americans to have their voice heard is the new chique in modern GOP trends.
How fashionable!
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)"You Have to STOP being the STUPID party"
A great Quote from the movie Scrooged: Sometimes you
have to KICK them in the head to get their attention.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)What if it's a private college without differential tuition?
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)It's exactly to prevent out-of-state residents from paying lower in-state rates. Generally, one has to withdraw for a semester and work to get around that.
Students generally are supposedto vote absentee in their parent(s)/guardian(s) home state and district.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)Voting is a fundamental right and the 14th Amendment states that an American citizen is also a citizen of the state where he or she resides.
OmahaBlueDog
(10,000 posts)If you are an out-of-state student, you don't "reside" in the state in a legal sense. You still hold your full legal voting rights in your state of legal residence.
BadgerKid
(4,552 posts)IOW, you would need to be living off campus and paying utility bills.
Deep13
(39,154 posts)and subject to their jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States AND THE STATE WHEREIN THEY RESIDE.
--14th Amend.
There's no conditional language attached to that. Citizenship is a personal right, not a property right. It doesn't matter who they are paying for what.
And if they move away after four years, there will be new students in the same situation for the next four years. So why should someone be voting in a state where he or she does not live for four years?