Representative Bob Thorpe would require students who want to vote to do so only by signing up to get an early ballot from where they were living before they became students
If Flagstaff legislator Bob Thorpe has his way, students attending Yavapai Community College could not vote in Arizona elections unless they were Arizona citizens before moving to the Campus. A similar proposal introduced by him earlier this year died when Representative Doug Coleman, (R-Apache Junction) refused to even give it a hearing in the House Government Committee that he chairs.
In a ruling, upheld without comment in 1979 by the United States Supreme Court, the Court of
Appeals said students can choose whether to register to vote where they live while at school or at their prior home address.
For more information about Thorpe’s proposal, please click here to read the on-line story by Howard Fischer from the Verde Independent.