Comment Re:So... (Score 1) 492
Your primary residence is where you reside when you aren’t in school for 9 months. If the first thing you do when a school year is over is to leave the area until the next year begins, and if you graduate or leave school and then leave the area because you were only in the area to attend school, then it is not your primary residence.
Also, you bring up a very good point about why it is important to vote where you actually reside. I am not from Texas, and I don’t live in Texas. Many, many students attending the university I attended, in Texas, had guns. Many had at least a few. This doesn’t typically bother people in Texas. The campus actually had a “no guns” policy, but everyone ignored it. Now, some out of state students may have felt that this was wrong (I didn’t hear this directly, but as many were Leftists, it can be presumed that some didn’t like the idea). They don’t have the right to change that on behalf of Texas. Now, if they decide to live there outside of their time in school, have at it.
The same goes for urban owners of second homes in rural areas. Living in a house a couple of weekends per month, and maybe for a couple of months in the summer does not mean you primarily reside in that area, no matter what has been “allowed”. Yet there have been successful efforts to convert seats in rural areas by changing primary residence from a “Democrat-safe” (90% Dem registration) area to a rural area with a 40% dem registration. Again, to help those poor, ignorant hicks to make the right choices.