<p>Around here jury isn’t pulled by voter registration but by license renewal or any change made to your license. </p>
<p>We’ve sent for the absentee ballot for our state which he’ll fill out when he’s home in October. Neither state is a battleground, but both lean heavily historically for the same party so it really wouldn’t matter which state he voted in.</p>
<p>Be sure that the student finds out the registration and absentee balloting rules early. Some state politicians try to make it harder for some potential voters (e.g. college students) to vote because they believe that those groups of potential voters are more likely to vote against their party. So there may be strange rules and the like to work through.</p>
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Not true if there is not an expiration date on it, and most student ID’s do not have that. It must also not be expired. Students must also prove that they live in PA. [Preparing</a> for Election Day](<a href=“http://www.votespa.com/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1174114&parentname=ObjMgr&parentid=4&mode=2]Preparing”>http://www.votespa.com/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1174114&parentname=ObjMgr&parentid=4&mode=2) Pennsylvania is one of those states that is trying to make it harder for people to vote. :(</p>
<p>States use all sorts of registries to pull people for jury duty. S1 was summoned for jury duty in PA, where he went to college and was only a registered voter. The summons came after he graduated, so he never had to serve. Our home state then summoned him a few months later, probably from the DMV rolls since he’s not registered to vote here. But by then he had moved out of state, so he still didn’t serve jury duty.</p>
<p>My D went to UG 1200 miles away. She voted here absentee (IN). She will do the same in November from Grad school, though it’s only one state over. Last time our state was a battleground, but I wonder now.</p>
<p>In the primaries people were turned away from the polls if their Driver’s license didn’t match their voter registration address. DS would rather not risk it so absentee ballot is best option. We live in Indiana and it was one of the first to pass photo ID voter laws.</p>
<p>[Michigan</a> sued over late absentee ballots for primary | The Detroit News | detroitnews.com](<a href=“http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120731/POLITICS01/207310406]Michigan”>http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120731/POLITICS01/207310406)</p>
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<p>One of the various voting fiascoes in Michigan this year. I am very thankful our governor didn’t sign into law even MORE confusing and cumbersome laws. However, it’s one of the reasons that I’m very wary of absentee voting here. Especially given the fact that I was likely given the wrong information by those at the SOS (see above). It’s quite sad that we can’t even get voting right in this country <em>shakes head</em>.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone this election day. Let’s hope all of our votes our counted no matter where we’re allowed to cast them or for whom. Even though I am very political (and am squarely on one side of the aisle), I believe in EVERYONE’s vote being counted. Our voter turn out is just absolutely sad.</p>
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<p>I better stop worrying about my kid’s situation and start thinking about mine as my Driver’s license doesn’t match my address. I thought I’d be fine because of the same voting location I’ve been to for years.</p>
<p>As for college students, can we trust that the student organizations that push voter registration know 100% that students can vote there?</p>
<p>If one uses his/her passport as ID, how to show address?</p>
<p>I’m glad I live in NY. I walk into my polling place - tell them my name - they open the book and I sign next to my info. Then go into voting booth. We do not have to show any ID at all. </p>
<p>This is how it should be everywhere. The idea that there are all these people running around trying to vote who are not eligible or running to numerous precincts to vote more than once is ludicrous. One only has to look at the pathetic voter participation in this country to understand that.</p>
<p>In-person voter fraud is actually quite rare in the US. Absentee voter fraud is somewhat more common, but politicians trying to pass various laws supposedly against voter fraud concentrate on in-person voter fraud.</p>
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<p>Registering to vote is actually pretty easy (at least in PA) and just requires filling out a form and mailing it in. The turning away point will be at the actual election site if someone does not have the correct photo ID. </p>
<p>My older son had to vote with a provisional ballot in the primary because in the last elections he had used absentee ballots at his OOS college and abroad. I thought that was weird as it clearly says that you must apply for an absentee ballot for each election, i.e., your home address should be the default one.</p>
<p>Every state is different, so check the laws in your state for both registering and voting.</p>
<p>In Massachusetts, no ID is required to vote; in Ohio, where my son just registered at school, it is. Valid IDs there include utility bill, bank statement or paycheck, and he’s got one of those (but not a photo ID there). This also varies by state.</p>
<p>You might also want to check the polling place location. S2 goes to school in a small town, has no car, and his polling place would be way off campus. He also cared about a race in our home state, so he registered here and will vote absentee. S1, on the other hand, goes right by the polling place on his route from apt. to school.</p>
<p>In Canada, everyone has a nationally issued photo ID card that is used for voting eligibility. But the irony is that everyone wants to have that ID, because it’s the National Health Insurance card.</p>
<p>The last time I voted in MA, I had to show both an ID and a piece of received mail. They told me that the mail (for prof of address) was only required the first time I voted in that address – my ID did not at that time reflect my MA address.</p>
<p>I just noticed that Wisconsin requires students to show a photo ID AND - from their website:
“A university, college or technical institute identification card (must include photo), ONLY if the bearer provides a fee receipt dated within the last nine months or the institution provides a certified housing list to the municipal clerk”</p>
<p>Showing a dated fee receipt or proof of certified housing list is new as far as I know. Last election the OOS students just showed ID. I heard that Walker wanted to make it more difficult for the students to vote. This might be what was being talked about.</p>
<p>I really don’t care for this make it difficult to vote attitude - !</p>
<p>Hope all the students who want to vote get to vote whoever they are voting for!</p>
<p>My mistake, eireann. From the Mass. Secretary of State:</p>
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<p>So that would be the same in every state. But after that, Mass. does not require ID each time you vote. In Ohio, ID has to be shown every time (even for my mother-in-law voting absentee at the election office where she knew everyone–she had to go renew her state ID before they would let her vote! She could have used a utility bill or bank statement, but she didn’t want them knowing her business. :)).</p>
<p>“I really don’t care for this make it difficult to vote attitude - !”</p>
<p>One would think, in this day and age, we would be striving to make it easier for people to vote not harder. I find it very sad.</p>
<p>^ As I said, I applauded our governor who crossed party lines and said no to his party’s unreasonable voting bills. Unfortunately, he seems to be the minority about making sure voting stays as reasonable as possible. I wish more had a common sense approach like he has.</p>