Deal with it via whatever coping mechanism you have to employ. Life can be offensive.
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New Hampshire GOP says "liberal-voting colliegates too stupid to vote"
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Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
Life can be offensive, but there's nothing wrong with telling the offenders to cut it out.
FriendlyFire
Codex WMDicanious
What if you desperately want to volunteer for front line combat (counts as double) but cant because you have a boil on your butt ?
danjuno
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Deal with it via whatever coping mechanism you have to employ. Life can be offensive.
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Yeah, black people should have just taken it in the *** from the KKK. 
Gogf
Indescribable
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/03/06/AR2011030602662.html
Strikes me as a rather blatant attempt at restricting liberal voters from getting to the polling booths. Thoughts?
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While I don't think his argument is sound, I do think it's reasonable to say that people who don't intend to live in an area long-term (college students, for example) should probably not have a prominent say in long-term local-area politics.
Four years is certainly a long enough period to have relevant interests in local politics, especially when they are just as affected by the local politics like everyone else. Unless college-relevant legislation somehow magically becomes non-local.
Formaldehyde
Both Fair And Balanced
How do most people know where they are going to live after they get out of college? How about military who are likely to relocate?
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I grew up, went to University, and now work and pay taxes in this city. I know many people who can say the same thing. We had a vested interest in the politics of our city then, and we still have one now.
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We should also criminalise saying "gay marriage should be illegal' so that it's punished by being stricken of one's right to vote. Should balance the pool out nicely, aye?
This is a blatant attempt to weaken the liberal base but trying to get around it. Disgusting.
Banning opinions is the wrong way to go in politics. Why not actually take the time to try and win people over?
This is a blatant attempt to weaken the liberal base but trying to get around it. Disgusting.
Banning opinions is the wrong way to go in politics. Why not actually take the time to try and win people over?
Hygro
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It's the old election fraud to overwhelm voter fraud technique. A checkmate move, Republicans, a checkmate move.
Where, exactly, is their legal residence? Have the officially moved to the State, gotten driver license there now, and so forth and so on? Or, as I suspect, are they still legally citizens of wherever their parents live (which hey, might be instate or even local...or might be Wasila, Alaska)
I don't know if this is at all applicable to the US, but AFAIK in the UK at least some students are eligible to vote in two different electorates (that is, they can vote in both of them in the same election), due to their two different residences. Loophole fixing wouldn't be quite the same as calculated disenfranchisement.
Totally unacceptable!! Why should anyone, ever, get to vote twice. Go for it in the UK if you want, but that...grr...
...no, absolutely not here across the pond.That is wht I am asking. Did they move their legal residence to the college, or are they retaining legal residence wherever 'home' is?
Think of the actors that filmed Lord of the Rings. Did they suddenly become New Zealand citizens and get to vote in all the stuff down there just because there were living down there for a time, or did they retain citizenship in USA, UK, etc. Or any other worker who spends a long, extended period of time away from 'home' in a different area.
Totally unacceptable!! Why should anyone, ever, get to vote twice. Go for it in the UK if you want, but that...grr...
*Should add- I cannot entirely vouch for the validity of my claim.
Edit: Reading from here, I may be mistaking 'can quite easily vote twice' with 'allowed to vote twice'.
Ah, okay... "If an elector is registered to vote in two different electoral areas, they are eligible to vote in local elections for the two different local councils. However, it is an offence to vote twice in any one election. Such an offence could result in a fine of up to £5,000. "
So it's kind of relying on the person to adhere to the hono(u)r system and not abuse the electoral process by voting twice.
So it's kind of relying on the person to adhere to the hono(u)r system and not abuse the electoral process by voting twice.
