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Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

September 8, 2008 Voter Registration by Students Raises Cloud of Consequences By TAMAR LEWIN The widespread practice of students? registering to vote at their college address has set off a fracas in Virginia, a battleground state in the presidential election. Late last month, as a voter-registration drive by supporters of Senator Barack Obama was signing up thousands of students at Virginia Tech, the local registrar of elections issued two releases incorrectly suggesting a range of dire possibilities for students who registered to vote at their college. The releases warned that such students could no longer be claimed as dependents on their parents? tax returns, a statement the Internal Revenue Service says is incorrect, and could lose scholarships or coverage under their parents? car and health insurance...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on September 08, 2008 (boomark / email).