2012 Presidential Election Restrictions

[Revan]

(This might not be where it should be, maybe Entertainment and Media or LGBT Rights, Topics, etc. But I'm posting this here for now.)
So....Republicans are now pulling out all the stops to try and win the Presidency next November (2012). How you might ask? Oh just by maybe the most revolting thing I've read, by targeting and banning students from voting.

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/op...ml?_r=2&hp&gwh

Excerpt:

Next fall, thousands of students on college campuses will attempt to register to vote and be turned away. Sorry, they will hear, you have an out-of-state driver’s license. Sorry, your college ID is not valid here. Sorry, we found out that you paid out-of-state tuition, so even though you do have a state driver’s license, you still can’t vote.

Seven states have already passed strict laws requiring a government-issued ID (like a driver’s license or a passport) to vote, which many students don’t have, and 27 others are considering such measures. Many of those laws have been interpreted as prohibiting out-of-state driver’s licenses from being used for voting.

Fun huh? Good to see how much lawmakers are encouraging youth to participate.

[Austin]

That's stupid. It's like when they silenced the black vote in Florida to let GWB win.

[jargon]

Hmm, Id challenge this a little bit. Nothing here stops young people from voting, it just makes it slightly harder. Students still don't have to travel to their home-state to vote, they just have to plan ahead a little and send away for an absentee ballot. In a way it makes sense because the census counts students as living in their home-state, not the one they go to school in (and the census data [in part] determines how many electoral votes each state gets).

I'm not a democrat, but I almost universally prefer the democratic party to the republican if those are the only two options. But objectively it makes sense, even if realistically it is only being brought up because it helps their party get votes :/