Democracy Later
College students are being denied the vote, writes Megan Tandy:
(One) argument used to justify banning students from voting in college towns is their transient lifestyle ñ that they'll simply move away in four years, leaving behind the polices they help put in place. But, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 46% of Americans moved between 1995 and 2000; in other words, nearly half of the American public are as transient as college students. What's more, many states allow homeless people to vote and Virginia allows the homeless to vote "wherever they lay their head at night."