Parents From Blue States Urge Their Kids at Georgia Tech to Vote in Swing State
“I’d rather have my daughter vote in a swing state than home in Illinois where her vote won’t have much of an impact”
Of course they do. Democrats will do anything to win, including this.
The College Fix reports:
Blue state parents urge their kids at Georgia Tech to vote in swing state
Parents from states like New York and Illinois are urging their kids enrolled at Georgia Tech to register to vote in Georgia for the upcoming presidential election, arguing their vote could help sway the outcome in the swing state.
Screenshots from conversations on a “Georgia Tech Parent and Community Forum” show several parents from Democratic-majority states saying their child’s vote would matter more in Georgia and they should register there.
“I’d rather have my daughter vote in a swing state than home in Illinois where her vote won’t have much of an impact,” one user in the Facebook group posted in response to another parent who asked, “Why don’t you get your child registered to vote in their home state?”
“Rather have her vote in [a] swing state. Massachusetts is guaranteed blue,” said another parent.
A mom from New York also posted: “GT students absolutely CAN vote in Georgia — my NY son registered there the minute he got to school three years ago and has been voting in every election ever since.”
“…If you live in a solidly red or blue state where your vote doesn’t hold as much weight, registering in a swing state rather than using an absentee ballot lets your vote make more of a difference.”
Screenshots of the topic were provided to The College Fix by one member who questioned whether the tacit was appropriate or legal.
Georgia Tech is located in Fulton County. The county’s website states “out-of-state students or out-of-county students wanting to vote can do so by requesting an absentee ballot from the county in which they are registered to vote.”
Some parents in the Facebook group took issue with the effort.
“[T]his is the rule from the secretary of state’s website. Your student is not a legal resident of a GA county if they are out of state so legally is not able to vote in GA,” one parent posted, and included a link to the state of Georgia’s online voter registration portal.
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of course
thats why they send their newly minted migrants to stay outside of big cities
well that and not interfere with blackgangs
so they can form new dem strongholds
its a war
I was in college in Massachusetts the year that 18-year-olds got the vote. Went down to Cambridge City Hall to register and was turned down.
“You don’t have a permanent address here.”
“Yes I do, been in at the same address for three years, winter and summer.” (Since I was working for the school, on campus, they made an exception and let me stay in the dorm.)
“Are you entirely self-supporting?”
I said no, because my dad was paying my tuition, whereas I was in fact working and paying everything else, including my room and board.
“You let my roommate register, and he’s not self-supporting.”
“He’s blind. The state picks up his expenses, so he’s self-supporting.”
This was my first personal exposure to Democrat logic. The state supports you, ergo you are self-sufficient.
So I called the ACLU, who was doing a land-office business in newly-minted 18-20yo voters who were being denied the vote in their college towns. The ACLU was just about as much help as you would think against a Democrat council, (Of course, I believed in their non-partisanship back then,)
The Cambridge pols were terrified that conservative students would screw up their local elections. I didn’t give a damn about their local elections. I wanted to vote for the top slot, and hardly cared or even knew anything about the federal congressional candidates, much less slots below that.
Good job of radicalizing the young, Massachusetts Democrats.
GT is pretty small and I’d imagine a lot of the STEM type majors there are more conservative than your garden variety wokiversity.
The young demos are still skewed into blind ignorance but at least it’s a STEM school. I hope it gets around campus and generates counter-sentiment.
A lot computer science faculty and students I have encountered at various schools are brain dead leftists.
I hope they realize that registering to vote in GA makes them a legal GA resident, and they have 30 days to change over their drivers’ licenses and car tags.
Also, if they ever want to come back to their original state for further college or grad school, they will pay out-of-state tuition.
When I worked at a ESU (Enormous State University), the bean-counters always looked for reasons to deny in-state tuition. Having registered to vote in another state was a slam-dunk.
Georgia might be easier to establish than Florida but it’s not easy in FL. It took me a year.
I’m surprised if Georgia is so much easier because one of the reasons FL is hard is to do is to prevent fraud for in-state tuition programs that make undergrad free or very cheap if you aren’t a total jagoff in high school. Georgia has a very similar program.
Ha…it’s so expensive to change car tags in Georgia because you pay an ad valorum tax at that time
I’d rather they just stay home and vote in Illinois since the Dems have already ruined this state–there’s not much more damage they can do
For those years I was at Hillsdale, I voted an absentee ballot in Texas. I suppose I could have registered in Michigan, but every chance I had to vote against that Marxist bonehead Joaquin Castro, I took.
“I’d rather have my daughter vote in a swing state than home in Illinois where her vote won’t have much of an impact”
If you’re still claiming them as dependents, I’m not sure they can change their residency. And I bet you are.
I doubt your kid has the tenacity (based on blue attendees of college in the last couple of decades) to do the things required to declare their residency in that state, including tax paperwork.
If they haven’t registered in GA yet, they’re welcome to — for any elections and runoffs that might take place in or after December 2024.
“By any means necessary.”
The ends always justify the means, to Leftists.
That said:
At GA Tech, your child has been exposed not only to extreme Demoncrat incompetence, race-hustling and corruption at the highest levels, but lives a much less sheltered life than you had provided at home: they now live, work and play amidst the filth and crime of Midtown Atlanta.
AND despite the international diversity of GA Tech, they live, study and play amidst more bright, white conservative Republicans than could have been possible in Damnyankistan from whence they came. The chance they may vote Red is much greater than ever before.
I agree: I hope they registered in time and cast their vote legally in this swing state of GA as well. Let the chips fall where they may.
This is a really stupid story. Of course students from states where their vote will have no impact are encouraged to register and vote where they are studying, so that their vote will matter. Both Democrat and Republican parents are surely urging their children to do so, because they’d be idiots not to.
It’s 10o% legal, and that makes it appropriate.
Georgia Tech is located in Fulton County. The county’s website states “out-of-state students or out-of-county students wanting to vote can do so by requesting an absentee ballot from the county in which they are registered to vote.”
This is misleading to the point of being deliberately dishonest. Yes, the site says that, about students who are registered somewhere else. The same site also says: ”
Yes, college students who meet the generally applicable registration requirements may register to vote in the county where the student attends college.” So it is completely legal and aboveboard.
Of course it also warns that: “As a student, your home of record could affect scholarship eligibility and financial aid. Before changing your registration to the Georgia county where you attend college, make sure it does not conflict with any financial aid or scholarships you may receive from an out-of-state address.” This is something Republican activists may wish to pursue. Investigate students who have registered in GA and make sure the place they’re from knows that they’re no longer resident there. Check whether they’re still using their old drivers’ license, etc. None of this would invalidate their GA registration, but knowing this could happen may give them an incentive not to register there in the first place.
It was beyond stupid to open up federal elections to 18 year olds. They simply have no skin in the game, having had no chance yet to be out on their own, establishing their own lives. Then making it possible for college students to register where they go to school is beyond stupid. It certainly looks like any politically motivated college student going to school out of state has the opportunituy to vote twice – once in his home state and once in the state he’s going to school. Here in Ohio, where there are a lot of colleges and several truly large unitversities, the reflexively liberal college vote is a potent force, especally in elections such as this one, where abortion is being made the central issue on the left. Most college students would be horrified to interrupt their studies for a pregnancy. The adults in the room have failed us when it comes to letting deperndent kids vote.