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Student's domicile
not legally defined
By MARK NICKELSON
Associate news editor
Under state law the Clarke
County registrar may have a
case for denying students the
right to register to vote.
Or students may have a case
for voting in the community
where they attend college.
Eligibility to vote in a
county is based on domicile in
the Georgia Election Code,
Section 34-632a. And domicile
is defined as “that place in
which (a person’s) habitation is
fixed, without any present
intention of removing
therefrom and to which,
whenever he is absent, he
intends to return (from the
same section).”
by this definition, a case
could be made that students
have no domicile at all, since
they typically intend neither to
stay in their college
communities after graduation
nor to return to their parents’
communities.
BUT THE STATE attorney
general’s office wrote an
opinion - an unofficial
document for information only
on August 20, 1971,
presenting arguments for
student franchise in a college
community.
The opinion was based on
treating students like any other
citizens in terms of voting
eligibility. It states, in part, ‘‘A
student is affected by the
executive, legislative and
judicial decisions reached by
local and state officials in the
community.
“A student has the same
opportunity to observe jocal
conditions, has the same access
to the news media and
presumably has the same stake
in the outcome of the elections
as any other citizen in the
community.
‘To now decide that a
student be treated differently,
and made to vote in a
community other than where
he resides, because of an
ancient artificial assumption of
residence with parents, would
be to deny the teachings of
recent history, as well as a
likely unconstitutional
discrimination.”
COUNTY REGISTRARS
operate only with the simple
requirement of domicile to
determine voting eligibility.
The election code leaves
determination of domicile up
to them.
The registrars have to satisfy
themselves by whatever means
they can devise that an
applicant for voter registration
really is a resident with no
present intention to move
away.
The attorney general’s
office drew up a list of ten
questions for registrars to use
as guides to what to ask an
applicant, and circulated the
list in another opinion, dated
March 17, 1972.
The suggested questions
deal with spouse’s residence,
place of employment, storage
of personal property; auto
registration, intention after
graduation, amount of and
reason for time spent away
from claimed domicile, and
addresses on driver’s license,
selective service registration,
income tax report, insurance
policies and other documents
that require a statement of
residence.
These guidelines are not
basis for legal decisions.
Residency (domicile) is the
only basis for voter eligibility.
The registrar has to determine
domicile, without further legal
supervision.
The state legal code
empowers county boards of
registrars to determine
residency. When an applicant is
dissatisfied with a registrar’s
determination, the case has
gone beyond the provisions of
Georgia civil code and becomes
an appeal case.
Banquet
to unveil
portrait
The Demosthenian Society
will hold its annual banquet
this Saturday and honor Mr.
William Tapley Bennett, Jr.
with the unveiling of his
portrait which will be hung on
the “Wall of Fame.”
Each year the
Demosthenians select an
individual who has “made
outstanding contributions to
his state and country” and
have his portrait hung on the
lower floor of the society’s hall
of North Campus. The award
to Mr. Bennett is the tenth in
the series.
Bennett was born in Griffin,
Georgia and received a
bachelor’s degree from the
University in 1937. He is a
career Foreign Service Officer
and last year was appointed
Deputy Representative of the
United States in the U.N.
Security Council.
The society will also present
former Student Senate
President Joel Wooten and
Senator Charles Hall with the
Annual Student Government
Award at its Saturday banquet.
The Red and Black, Friday, May 12, 1972
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