New Hampshire Voter ID law Challenged--but not very well.

The Left Wing League of Women Voters and the ACLU, have filed suit in New Hampshire on behalf of four “out of state college students” who want to vote here, but don’t want to be subject to any other laws pertaining to domicile.

That's right.  The ACLU and LoWV are arguing that people who do not live here and who do not want to be subject to any other laws pertaining to domicile in New Hampshire, are having their rights violated if we don't let them vote here.

From Joan Ashwell, League of Women Vote Stealers…

‘‘Students are left with either signing a statement that doesn’t reflect New Hampshire laws or being forced to give up their constitutional right to vote,’’ said Joan Ashwell, election law specialist for the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire.

Actually, Joan, they do have another option.  It’s called the absentee ballot.  It is this thing where people who are someplace else can still vote in their own home town by mail.   This way people who have to be someplace they don’t live, can still vote where they live.  And Joan?  Every state I am aware of allows college students matriculating out of state to use them. 

And Joan, if it's good enough for the men and women in the military who never know when they will be asked to risk their lives in the name of freedom and...oh, I don't know...the right to the secret ballot perhaps, shouldn't it be good enough for college students whose home addresses are outside New Hampshire but choose to go to school in the Granite State?

It is a strange argument to make, particularly for the League of Women Voters.

The League of Women Voters was part of the left wing cabal that challenged the Indiana voter ID law in Crawford v. Marion County Election Board.  Strange because one of the “Indiana voters” in the League’s amicus brief--used as an example of someone who had difficulty voting because of the Indiana voter ID law--was trying to use a Florida drivers license to vote in Indiana. 

As it turns out, this "voter" also just happened to be registered to vote in Florida where she owned a home and had filed for a homestead exemption on her property taxes–something only available to Florida state residents. 

So the woman who had been “denied the right to vote” in Indiana because of her out of state ID was a Florida resident, registered to vote in Florida, and more than able to vote by absentee ballot in Florida.  Someone whose ballot or vote could have been stolen in Florida while she voted in Indiana.  A woman who could have voted in Indiana and Florida had the ID law not prevented her voting in Indiana.

The law prevented vote fraud.

I wonder if any of the students Joan is representing have Florida drivers licenses?

Moving on?

Claire Ebel, director of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, compared the new law to an unconstitutional poll tax, saying it would discriminate against students who couldn’t afford to register their cars and pay driver’s license fees.

Um.  Claire?  If it is a poll tax to require students to register their cars or pay drivers license fees before voting here then wouldn't it also be a poll tax for everyone else who actually lives in New Hampshire who has to do the exact same thing? We all have to register our cars and pay for a drivers license.  We all have to buy gas to put in our cars.  So unless you walk to where you vote...wait, I'll ask.

Show of hands.  Who in New Hampshire can walk to where they vote? 

Not too many.  Must be time for a class action lawsuit, yes?  And not just in New Hampshire.  Every state in the nation is discriminating against the super majority of their voters by requiring them to register their cars and pay for a drivers license, just so they can get to a polling place.  What’s next, making them pay for cab fare, bus fare, and subway tokens—poll taxes!!

Can we argue that the cost of shoes, required to walk to the polls, is a form of poll tax?  Well why not?  I had to eat breakfast to have the energy to walk to the polls.  Hey!  paying for my own breakfast is a poll tax.

Claire?  You there?  Hello?  Claire?  Even if we "play along" with your absurd notion, guess what would solve your so-called presumption of a poll tax?  This is really going to bust your buttons.   Voting absentee ballot in their own home towns would solve that, Claire.  Can you imagine?

All they have to do is ask for one.  Or is that a poll tax too?

So what are you filing suit for again?  To suspend the law for this November?  Not much to stand on.  Nothing, actually.  So let me explain what your challenge is actually attempting to do. 

The entire point of the suit is not about poll taxes, or college students voting rights. Mr. Obama could lose New Hampshire.  Things are so desperate that they need New Hampshire.  They need every vote they can steal, and what better source than students from states Obama could never win, or can't lose? 

But with the New hampshire law still in place, even though it is not even fully in force for another year, the professional left still must convince enough of these out of state students to vote here anyway, maybe sign the affidavit declaring domicile even though they do not live here, so they can vote Democrat in a critical swing state come November. 

Put another way, Clair and Joan want to be able to help New Hampshire Democrats and liberal professors stuff local ballot boxes with out of state influnce, but the law might be just enough of a barrier to keep some of those kids from going for it. 

If they could just get some judge to suspend the New Hampshire Law until after November...

You know I'm right.

Registering a car or paying for a license is not a poll tax.  Requiring them to vote absentee in their home towns is not a violation of their rights.

The Indian ID law is far stricter than New Hampshire's law--even when it does finally go into full effect in 2013.  The Indiana law has been upheld by the Supreme Court.  People who live outside the state they are in do not have a right to vote in that state.  And the League of Women voters knows it...they lost that case.

So why else ask for a temporary suspension?  So out of state students can steal New Hampshire votes.  The votes of people who readily admit that they do not live here, and do not want to be subject to any of laws relating to domicile.

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