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Thread #128047   Message #2865253
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
16-Mar-10 - 10:55 AM
Thread Name: BS: Voting Rights For Non-Citizens-Maine
Subject: RE: BS: Voting Rights For Non-Citizens-Maine
As to temporary residents, like "summer folks", there's several possibilities:

1. If they live in the community more than half the time, they are residents, period, methinks. I think there's not much question about this in most jurisdictions.

2. If they want to vote in community A, where they have temporary or part-time residency, they should be allowed to vote if they provide affidavits that they do/will not vote in any other local jurisdiction, and documentation from the alternative jurisdiction(s) that they have been stricken from the rolls there. "Only one bite at the apple."

Seems to me that I had another alternative in mind, but my ancient memory is declining to provide it right now. Maybe later.

Dave Oesterreich