Monday, September 8, 2008

starting early this year...

The widespread practice of students' registering to vote at their college address has set off a fracas in Virginia, a battleground state in the presidential election.

Late last month, as a voter-registration drive by supporters of Senator Barack Obama was signing up thousands of students at Virginia Tech, the local registrar of elections issued two releases incorrectly suggesting a range of dire possibilities for students who registered to vote at their college.
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After some inquiries from students and parents, and more pointed questions from civil rights lawyers, the state board of elections said Friday that it was "modifying and clarifying" the state guidelines on which the county registrar had based his releases.

2 comments:

Brain Dead Bob said...

Why cantchoo peepole go a day withoug wining? You libruls alwats need to have the rools chacnged becuz you cant win. Well geuss whut, chaging the rools won't let you win either.

k-mad said...

Good to hear from our brain-dead buddy Brain Dead Bob. I was afraid you had chased a squirrel into traffic and been smacked by a bus or something.

BDB asks a fair question. Could it be that we're just being patriotic? We are, after all, a Nation of whiners.