Earlier I pointed out that the high penalty for violating SB3 is $5000 which is being used as an argument against allowing the law to come into force (“The $5,000 fine is financially crushing to college students“). This was pointed out as part of the Democrat testimony against SB3 (reformatted, emphasis mine):
Recent UNH graduate Doug Marino, now working as a volunteer in the Congressional campaign of Democrat Chris Pappas, testified as to his experience in recruiting student voters on campus. “I believe it (SB3) will deter students from voting. College students as it is are extremely busy, particularly first-year students, who are in a new place or on their own for the first time,” he said. “Even those who may want to register to vote may be wary of doing so if they have to sign a document that could potentially carry legal penalties.”
Especially if they are lying?
Marino said the requirement that college voters commit to a long-term domicile in order to vote is unrealistic. “I think a lot of students are going to be hesitant to sign a document like that when they are really not sure what they are going to be doing a year from now,” he said. “When you have so much debt, it’s hard to make a long-term plan.”
Right…no, WRONG. It has nothing to do with “long term” – this is over a legal definition of domicile and obeying the laws that the rest of us have to obey. Change your license to a NH one, register your car here and all of the rest required to show “I am a NH citizen”. It isn’t all that hard to do – as this nitwit got caught saying “it’s too hard for people!” and then his history proved otherwise:
Under questioning by the attorney for the state, Marino acknowledged that he had completed all of the tasks needed to properly register to vote in three different locations over his college career.
So, it certainly didn’t deter him from doing what was necessary in order to vote, did it? His use of “long term” is a red herring as well as “will deter students from voting”. They can, as long as they are of age, vote in any election – just do it by an absentee ballot (a phrase that is a black hole for Democrats – sorta like the meaning of the Constitution unless its words fit their agenda at any particular time).
(H/T: Susan, UL)
