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Confusing Voter Registration Laws Could Affect Presidential Election. By Nikki Schwab
Thu Sep 25, 12:19 PM ET

Imagine you're a college student and you'll be voting for the first time in November. You hear from some that you're able to register to vote at your university address. You are warned by others that if you do, you could lose a scholarship, or health or car insurance, and you'll have to get a new driver's license, too. You consider voting absentee, only to be told by get-out-the-vote volunteers that your absentee ballot really counts only if the election is close.

Confused yet?

Virginia Tech students certainly were when they were delivered these conflicting messages over the past few weeks. With voter registration drives in full swing on campus, students got word from the local registrar of elections that they could face consequences if they registered to vote in Blacksburg--they could lose residency-based scholarships, or their tax status could change--even though, according to the Supreme Court, students have the right to vote where they go to college.

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I get confused with the Nazis and GOP when it comes to voter suppression.

Wow.

I knew where to vote right out of high school.

Someone, somewhere, has decided students are dangerous to the vote.

Fliers have been popping up all over campus telling students they can't register to vote at voting drives being held on campus if they don't live on campus; telling them if they change their polling location to their current address they could lose their Hope scholarships; and telling them they might even find their federal financial aid taken away from them if they accidentally violate any voting laws.

Yesterday, a man who said he worked for the Republican campaign office in Murfreesboro was stopped by campus police as he was stapling one of these fliers to a telephone pole on campus. When campus police called the office to verify that, they identified him as the office manager.

I find that appalling.

Suppress the vote, suppress the vote, suppress the vote. Especially students and young voters, who tend to vote more [big D] Democratic when they do show up at the polls.

Democrats don't have a squeaky clean record in this subject either, but some in the GOP have been pretty shameless about challenging voters at the polls locally.