| The Dartmouth reports that the NH College Democrats, the College Republicans and the College Libertarians are joining forces to oppose the bill, sponsored by Rep Gregory Sorg (R-Easton).
They are going to mount a petition drive as well as look into the effects of the legislation on wider voting trends in New Hampshire.
College Republican President Richard Sunderland III '11 said the legislation suggests a "generational gap" where people "assume that college students are more liberal."
Speaker Bill O'Brien said as much when he addressed the Rochester chapter of the 912 Coalition, a group introduced by television personality Glenn Beck on March 13, 2009. From the Union Leader, January 21, 2011:
He said students in college towns register to vote on Election Day "and are basically doing what I did when I was a kid and foolish, voting as a liberal.
"That's what kids do," he said. "They don't have life experience and they just vote their feelings. And they've taken away the town's ability to govern themselves. It's not fair."
Ostensibly, the bill is to stop "voter fraud", although the above quote from O'Brien belies the real reason. BH's own Paul Twomey is quoted in the article, saying that the NH Secretary of State investigated cases of alleged voter fraud in 2006 and 2008 and found none.
It's good the young people are working together to defeat another piece of bad GOP legislation, .
College Republican President Richard Sunderland III
"It doesn't matter whether we're liberal or conservative - it just isn't right," he said. "Whether every college student is liberal or every college student is conservative, every vote gets to count, and you can't change that."
Hopefully not. |
