Republican law would punish Ohio colleges for helping students vote

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/17/republican-law-would-punish-ohio-colleges-for-helping-students-vote/

By David Ferguson
Friday, May 17, 2013 12:58 EDT

Republicans in the Ohio state legislature are promoting an amendment to a state budget bill that would punish public universities that provide students with the necessary materials to register to vote. According to Talking Points Memo, the legislators say that they are trying to resolve discrepancies between residency requirements for in-state tuition and voter registration. Democrats accuse the Republicans of attempting to disenfranchise another traditionally Democratic constituency in an important swing state.

“What the bill would do is penalize public universities for providing their students with the documents they need to vote,” said Ohio University professor and election law expert Daniel Tokaji to TPM. “It’s a transparent effort at vote suppression — about the most blatant and shameful we’ve seen in this state, which is saying quite a lot.”

[SheilaT]

1. I was under the impression that college students could, by federal law,

choose to vote where they go to school or where they live/their parents live.

If this passes, it needs to be fast tracked to the Supreme Court, I think.

[freshwest]

2. In keeping with their attacks on all public institutions, libraries, schools, etc..

They repeatedly shred anything in the public arena for disseminating forbidden information that would help people change things...

[Downtown Hound]

3. More Republican voter suppression.

Can we do the same thing to churches, Republicans?