Indiana Representative Peggy Manfield (R-Martinsville) has introduced HB 1311. It would provide that Indiana public university students who paid the out-of-state tuition fee could not register to vote in Indiana.
The bill is an example of how state legislators sometimes introduce bills without researching case law. In 1972 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Dunn v Blumstein, 405 U.S. 330, that states cannot require residents to have lived in that state for more than a month before registering to vote. Indiana rules on out-of-state students will not recognize that a student has moved to Indiana until the student has lived in Indiana for a full year. See this story about the bill.
One of these centuries the SCOTUS MORONS may be able to detect that each State is a NATION-STATE for ALL internal politics stuff.
1776 DOI
1777 Art. Confed.
1783 USA-Brit Peace Treaty
1787 Const – esp. Art. VII
Yet another self professed constitutional conservative wasting my tax dollars, by pursuing an unconstitutional path.
Indiana’s constitution clearly states a person who is at least 18 and who has been a resident of a precinct for the 30 days preceding an election may vote.
Indiana’s legislature has gone way down hill since our elvis impersonator Bruce Borders lost re-election at least then there was an entertainment value to our ridiculousness
It certainly is absurd how they are singling out college students, and not applying this to anyone else who moves to Indiana and is there for at least 30 days. This is blatantly unconstitutional.
A good argument for privatizing college education. Private schools don’t usually draw resident/non-resident distinctions when it comes to tuition.
Jeff Daiell
Jeff,
The reason why is that they don’t typically subsidize the tuition for students using tax money. That is why public universities have in-state/out-of-state tuition. THe in-state tuition is meant to be reduced because theoretically, those students paid taxes to the state at some point.