Students--you MUST read this--

[Barney Rocks]

From the AP Oct 22, 2004

PA Links Votes to Student Grant Money
The Washington Times
MICHAEL RUBINKAM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Some college students from Pennsylvania who plan to vote Nov. 2 will do so at their own financial peril. That's because students who go to school out of state and register to vote on campus lose their eligibility for Pennsylvania state grant money.

Mark Brice, of the Philadelphia suburb of Harleysville, found out the hard way when he was ordered last week to repay $560 in state grant money because he registered to vote at Wheaton College in Illinois, where he is a junior.

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Students' rights groups such as Rock the Vote and the New Voters Project encourage students to vote where they attend school. The New Voters Project says on its Web site that only "in extremely rare, if not improbable, circumstances" can registering to vote on campus affect financial aid.

"I think it's an outrage," said Ivan Frishberg, spokesman for the New Voters Project, which has registered tens of thousands of young people across the country. "It's never quite the right system if you say you came from a poor family so you don't get to choose where to vote."

(Excerpt) Read more at ap.washingtontimes.com ...

Students, protect yourselves! Make sure that you won't suffer financially based on where you register to vote!

[LSdemocrat]

1. Incredibly outrageous. Any other states with the same policy?

[Barney Rocks]

2. I don't know!

We have to find out--this just makes my blood boil!

[deadparrot]

3. Punishing people for doing their civic duty and actually giving a shit.

Shame on them!

:spank:

[Bill McBlueState]

4. Moonie Times scare tactic

I've really gotta wonder just how many students who go to school outside of Pennsylvania are receiving grant money from the state of Pennsylvania. Typically you have to go to school in-state to get state money.

As unfair as this regulation is, it probably affects a relative handful of students. The Washington Times (Warning: May Contain News-Like Substance) is just trying to scare people.

[Barney Rocks]

6. you are probably

right---the numbers of people impacted may not be that large. But it is such an injustice that it just burns me up.

I want to make sure all of our students are aware of what is going on--so that can make sure they are not harmed--and hopefully can defend themselves. This is aimed at punishing students and it makes me really angry.

[0007]

5. Jays'us fucking christ! ....and we have balls to call this a democracy?