[SouthernFreebird]

What was the reasoning given?

[alaskanfan]

Where are Jesse, Al, and the ACLU? Assuming of course that some of these students are African-American.

Oh but you said they are Republicans..........never mind.

[Otta B Sleepin]

The decision comes after a complaint was filed by Floyd Thomas Curry, an Arkadelphia resident and the son of a local Democratic candidate.

What was the complaint?

[MrJingles]

College-Republican Bump!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I found this peppy site through an NRO ad link. The young folks in Arkansas are fighting back. Young Freepers?

Please ping your fellow Arkansas freepers.

Hello from DNC fraud central - Florida - home of the 'soon to be re-elected' honorable Gov. Jeb Bush. (^:

[SwinneySwitch]

What happened to "Every Vote Should Count?"

[william clark]

Although some good points are being made by various posters regarding residency status and so forth, the tone of the article suggests that this standard is not applied at other schools. That would certainly make it discriminatory and newsworthy.

[Otta B Sleepin]

It's a given that this never would have come to light if the students were Democrats.

That said, if the situation were reversed, what would our reaction be?

[deport]

Ark. Gov. Challenges Judge's Ruling By KELLY P. KISSEL
Associated Press Writer

October 24, 2002, 11:52 AM EDT

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A judge has ruled that out-of-town college students cannot vote in his county on Election Day, and Gov. Mike Huckabee has offered his daughter as a plaintiff to challenge the ruling.

Circuit Judge John Thomas ruled Tuesday that students who live on campus remain residents of their hometowns. He directed election officials to void ballots for those who give a university address.

The ruling affects 912 students at Ouachita Baptist University and Henderson State University, both in Arkadelphia.

Sarah Huckabee, a student at Ouachita Baptist, is among those barred from casting a ballot in Clark County, 60 miles southwest of Little Rock. Her father is running for re-election; her mother, Janet, is running for secretary of state.

The governor said that denying his daughter a chance to vote is wrong.

"She voted in the 2000 election. She was called for jury duty and served faithfully. Her two parents are on the ballot," Huckabee said Wednesday.

A lawsuit challenging the ruling was expected to be brought as early as Thursday.

The judge ruled in a case brought by the son of a justice of the peace candidate. The candidate is facing a challenge from a Ouachita Baptist graduate.

"In the last few days of voter registration, we're hearing stories of just hundreds of students registering. It became clear that my right to vote was just going down the drain," said the candidate's son, Floyd Curry. "Even if these students voted the way I do, it's still diluting my vote."

Secretary of State Sharon Priest, the state's chief elections officer, said students should register in their parents' county if they intend to return to their hometown after college, and register in their college town if they have left home for good.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-arkansas-voting1024oct24,0,3651893.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[WSGilcrest]

All of the students? Regardless of party or residence? I'm sure not all the students are from out of state.

[sweetliberty]

See the kind of evil shenanigans we are dealing with here. It is like beating out heads against the wall fighting these @#$&*#@*!!!

Arkansas FReepers, any more light on this situation? I was listening to this on KARN this afternoon briefly.

[GovernmentShrinker]

There really needs to be some federal legislation on the subject of college students' voting locations. I suspect quite a lot are voting in two place -- the precinct of their parents' home, and the precinct of their college residence. A lot of it could be happening without their knowledge, as they register in their hometown, then someone at college tells them they need to register and vote there, and the Democrats find a way to use their still active home registrations for nefarious purposes.

[Arkinsaw]

I applaud all those here who are saying that the law is the law and we Republicans must live by them and not try to make loopholes as Democrats do. Hear hear and good for you. Makes me proud.

BUT, the law should be applied equally throughout the State and not cherry-picked for primarily religous or conservative schools. Arkansas State University in Jonesboro has said that they expect this ruling to have no effect on them.

So I would urge you not to abandon these kids and write them off. I think they should be supported in an effort to either have the law applied equally to all students in the State of Arkansas or have the law repealed. The law should not be simply a tool for Democratic cherry-picking, it makes the law hard to support and dooms us to honorable defeat. Thanks.

[Saundra Duffy]

This is a hate crime.

[ffrancone]

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[kcar]

This type of judicial theft steams me irrationally. It's always been ballots or bullets.

[MainFrame65]

My sons both went to out-of-state colleges, voted absentee at least once, and within three years were employed locally, legally changed their residences, and afterward voted at their college locations instead of at my home. Part of the reason was to be eligible for in-state tuition, but they jumped through all of the necessary hoops to do it, including a period of not being enrolled.

In other words, it might be legitimate, or it might not. (My sons had both been told that failure to vote meant disinheritance.)

[leprechaun9]

Those newly registered students should make certain that they get an ABSENTEE BALLOT PRONTO! If they are excited about voting, then their vote will also count at their home town.

DO IT NOW - GET THE ABSENTEE BALLOT!

[YoungKentuckyConservative]

I want some contact information so I can call up Mr. Thomas and tell him what a FU#*&$# TRAITOR HE IS!!!! I wish I lived in his county! I'd be hot on his a$$!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

This ruling is because the kids are registered to vote at their home, and can't vote where they go to school.

But they can vote in Florida or Missouri or Pennsylvania...