Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 15, 2012
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Zipper: So if Walden became a for-profit, it'd be able to pay its football players! Jeff: Aw, c'mon, the NCAA would never condone it. Zipper: Who cares? The for-profit colleges could set up their own league. Think of the quality athletes it would attract! The distance learning community would field the best teams in the country! We'd be totally ESPN-worthy! Tonight! The Walden Lurkers take on the Kaplan Trolls! Jeff: A warm-up for Failure Factory Phoenix!
DTPi, I never got back to your comment about out-of-state-students and convicted child rapists. You wrote,“They’re both issues in the news and in the public consciousness. They’re both issues that concern who has the right to vote. Do out-of-state students get the right to vote “en locus” (at or near the school they attend)? Do convicted felons who have served their time or are out on parole get the right to vote? Is that a states-rights issue? Does each separate state legislature get to decide? Or must the U.S.Congress pass a law dealing with the issue? Suppose a convicted felon has served every minute of his do-the-crime-do-the-time sentence get to vote? Ever? Anywhere? Or only in a designated polling place with proper protections for the real citizens round about? Does this include only convicted felons who have served all of their time? Or can the proposed legislation allow convicted child rapists who have served all of their prison time and have thus “paid their debt to society” to vote?”I’m not familiar with all the competing “jurisdictional spheres” in the US so I’m walking on thin ice. My question was more about determining the eligibility (or not) of a prespective voter at the voting booth. I know of somebody who was told that he would forfeit his US citizenship if he voted in a Canadian election. He decided to change his citizenship but if he were to move back to the US (say, spend five month of the year in Florida to get out of the cold) and show up at a polling station with his US birth certificate, would he be allowed to vote? I would think not. As to the out-of-state students, allowing them to vote “en locus” may be convenient for the students, but may be a problem for small college towns where the student body can overwhelm the local population. This can cause problems when local initiatives are on the ballot (representation without taxation?)