The headline reads, New Hampshire GOP Tries to Block Some College Kids from Voting in 2020. There’s a word missing in that title. An important word that changes it from a complete lie into a whole truth.
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So, what about that missing word? The missing word is “illegally.”
The Daily Beast headline should read “New Hampshire GOP Tries to Block Some College Kids from Voting Illegally in 2020.”
Because they can already vote. Legally. Absentee. To the address on their current driver’s license. Or, if they don’t drive, the address on their application for college.
Their legal address.
The only way to block their vote would be to stop them from finding a mailbox for their absentee ballot.
There’s no reason why they can’t vote from their legal address the same way deployed members of the military vote. How business execs or people who travel a lot for work vote. By mail. Using their legal address. Wherever they are in the world. Even when that happens to be New Hampshire.
Who doesn’t know this? What are you paying all that money for them to teach you at Dartmouth? Are NH Democrats telling you you can’t vote absentee because that might be vote suppression? It would also be odd.
Absentee voting is so popular on the Left; they want to pass a law that allows voting by mail by anyone for any reason.
And that’s not new. Democrats, at least in New Hampshire, have been after that for years.
But if voting by mail based on your legal address is not a hardship, why is The Daily Beast reporting that Republicans in New Hampshire are suppressing votes by charging a poll tax?
Because those narratives are also popular on the left.
Garrett Muscatel, a 20-year old Dartmouth student who also happens to be a New Hampshire state legislator, introduced Harris at the event. Afterward, as his classmates filed out, he spoke to The Daily Beast and pointed out a problem: only himself and “a couple out of everyone who’s here” will end up voting in the state’s pivotal first-in-the-nation primary.
“Because the Republicans passed legislation to make it so that college students couldn’t vote without paying a poll tax, ” he explained.
Instead of spouting talking points to the Daily Beast Garrett should be filing a class-action lawsuit. We’re all due hundreds of dollars for having to pay for a drivers license every few years. How many thousands in fines have people been charged for driving around New Hampshire in cars with out-of-state plates carrying out-of-state licenses for failure to register in the state? All that cash to register vehicles and get them inspected. All that money should be returned.
Poll tax!
While I’m making fun of Garrett and his dopey narrative, what about property taxes? I have to pay my town for the privilege of owning a building (that I live in) on land within their political boundaries. I use that address to vote in their elections. Without it, I can’t vote here. Poll tax!
What a scam. And here we have Garrett to enlighten us.
How unfair.
But unlike these other rubes, Garrett and his matriculating ilk have got an easy out. They could skip it all by voting absentee. Unimpeded. No “poll tax.” Request the ballot. Fill it out. Mail it and done. Votes not suppressed. Not even a tiny bit.
Instead, he’s whining to the Daily Beast about something that is not a poll tax. Garrett is clearly old enough to vote, but not smart enough to vote.
Every one of those out-of-state students could be voting for “free.”
Maybe that’s our new GOTV campaign.
Save a college kid a few bucks! Help them vote absentee from the out-of-state address on their college application!
Actually, it’s more of a GTVO. Get the Votes Out (of New Hampshire) and where they belong. It’s the opposite of vote suppression. And it stops them from suppressing the votes of actual residents who, if they sent their kids to college would have a New Hampshire address on the application.
