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NickA: Idaho Trying To Suppress College Vote

RE: Idaho restrictive in allowing students to vote in college towns/SR
Nick Adams: Now, thanks to fear, kids who go to school at NIC or U of I or BSU, will be held to a higher standard than you or me. If you choose to vote in CdA, that's where you should vote. Regardless of whether or not your parents live in Sandpoint, Worely, Kellogg, Lewiston, Cottonwood or Boise. Ben Ysursa is reacting to pressure put on him by his Republican party masters. They're terrified of Obama. It's ridiculus since almost nothing will change the fact that McCain will win Idaho. But they play hardball. One less vote for Obama is a win for the Idaho right wing. Now, they're trying to scare college students. It's shameful. What's next? Literary tests? Poll taxes? Seniors in retirement homes forced to travel back to their birth places to vote? More here.

Question: Should college students be required to vote from their home towns? Or should they be allowed to vote where they attend college?



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.