Georgia: 297 students' registration challenged in Statesboro
AP reports: Robert Greene had no problem three years ago voting for president in this college town where he studies linguistics. Now he’s fighting for the same right to vote in a city council race.
When he went to the polls Tuesday night, election workers steered the 21-year-old into a line of other Georgia Southern University students whose voter eligibility had been challenged by a small group of residents. ...
Georgia Southern students, including Greene, account for nearly all the 297 voters whose ballots have been blocked, at least temporarily, in a “town vs. gown” battle for control of Statesboro City Council.
Four residents calling themselves Statesboro Citizens for Good Government want the ballots thrown out. They say Georgia Southern students can’t legally register to vote in Statesboro unless it’s their hometown. ...
The winners of two city council elections won’t be decided until the Bulloch County Board of Registrars resolves the dispute, which will require 297 hearings — one for each challenged voter. The board may not finish before 2008. -- Locals challenge students’ voter rights