{"id":991,"date":"2010-01-20T11:40:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=991"},"modified":"2017-11-21T12:51:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T17:51:41","slug":"a-privilege-is-a-right-if-you-can-steal-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2010\/01\/20\/a-privilege-is-a-right-if-you-can-steal-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Privilege is a Right if You Can Steal It"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile<\/em><\/p>\n

Good old Civil Rights Day \u2013 Oh wait, its MLK Day now. The more we brag about equality \u2013 the more it stays the same, some of us are just plain better than others.<\/p>\n

Case in point: Doesn\u2019t the phrase \u201ccivil rights\u201d mean that no group, race, color, religion, or creed is provided special privileges? One would think so. But then you take a cursory look at the NH Secretary of State web site where it explains, rather perfectly, how some people are more privileged than others. Here it is:<\/p>\n

II. College Student Voting<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Hampshire election law provides college students with a special privilege when determining where they register to vote. A college student in New Hampshire may choose as his\/her voting domicile, either the domicile he\/she held before entering college or the domicile he\/she has established while attending college\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Once again one would think that registering to vote was everyone\u2019s civil right and that no one had certain specific privileges, but in NH you would be wrong. If I was writing this pamphlet for student voters I would substitute \u201clegal obligations\u201d where is says \u201cspecial privileges.\u201d But that is just me.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpecial Privileges\u201d means non-resident college students get to \u201cdetermine\u201d where they register, unlike NH residents with a legal domicile here in this state and town in which they actually live. College students in NH, even though they pay non-resident tuition, can claim they are residents of NH. Non-resident students can be \u201cdomiciled\u201d in any town surrounding the college town they go to school in, as is the determination and practice of our NH Attorney General\u2019s Office and Secretary of State.<\/p>\n

Have a look at the definition of domicile for NH elections. It is very similar, apparently, to the definition of \u201cis\u201d in Clinton lexicon.<\/p>\n

New Hampshire law provides the following definition of domicile:<\/p>\n

\u201cAn inhabitant’s domicile for voting purposes is that one place where a person, more than any other place, has established a physical presence and manifests an intent to maintain a single continuous presence for domestic, social, and civil purposes relevant to participating in democratic self-government. A person has the right to change domicile at any time, however a mere intention to change domicile in the future does not, of itself, terminate an established domicile before the person actually moves. A person\u2019s claim of domicile for voting purposes shall not be conclusive of the person\u2019s residence for any other purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n

SHALL NOT BE CONCLUSIVE\u2026?<\/p>\n

Wait, doesn\u2019t that mean you can keep your, for arguments case, Ohio driver\u2019s license? I think it does, so that privilege sends your taxes to Ohio when you re-up that license. Nice privilege.<\/p>\n

And if you register same day in NH, so you can take advantage of a hot US Senate race instead of the boring one in Vermont lets say, you get the privilege of picking and choosing a candidate. NH residents are not entitled to that privilege. (Hey, what if we said white voters could choose like this? Then there would be no need to gerrymander.)<\/p>\n

Let us stop and take a look again at the meaning of \u201cshall not be conclusive\u201d as it pertains to having a Vt. Drivers license and being privileged to vote in NH:<\/p>\n

CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE\u2014That which cannot be contradicted by any other evidence. For example, a record, unless impeached for fraud, is conclusive evidence between the parties.<\/p>\n

Now back to NH\u2019s definition of domicile:<\/p>\n

Non-resident student voters can keep an out of state license and thereby avoid being called for jury duty, a civil obligation, in NH where you and I would be required to serve.<\/p>\n

Non-resident student voters in NH can also keep their residency in their home state which means they could have enough residency to run for some political office back home.<\/p>\n

Let this sink in and we can take a look later at some of the stimulating Election Law the Democrats in NH have passed lately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Ed Naile Good old Civil Rights Day \u2013 Oh wait, its MLK Day now. The more we brag about equality \u2013 the more it stays the same, some of us are just plain better than others. Case in point: Doesn\u2019t the phrase \u201ccivil rights\u201d mean that no group, race, color, religion, or creed is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vote-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}