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The issue is not the age. This draws the distinction on whether a dependent by whether you vote while at college. In other words, you can be a dependent and at college, as long as you do not vote.
So if you are a dependent you should vote in what ever district your parents live in and not in the district, town or what ever the college is in.
They aren't taking away the right to vote, you can still vote, albeit by an absentee ballet at your home address.
The issue is not the age. This draws the distinction on whether a dependent by whether you vote while at college. In other words, you can be a dependent and at college, as long as you do not vote.
It makes a distinction where you are registered to vote.
Senate bill seeks to curb college vote :: WRAL.com
Senate Bill 667, known as "Equalize Voter Rights," would remove the tax exemption for dependents who register to vote at any address other than their parents' home.
"If the voter is a dependent of the voter's parent or legal guardian, is 18 years of age or older and the voter has registered at an address other than that of the parent or legal guardian, the parent or legal guardian will not be allowed to claim the voter as a dependent for state income tax purposes," the bill says.
The college student lives and resides at his college address.
Well, I see a potential fo income tax evasion. Who's to say that a person, in college, renting an apartment, has a job and is recieving no financial support from his parents, while his parents are steadily writing him off as a dependent? That's not a dependent.
The question is, at what point are parents forced to stop claiming their kid on their income taxes. I always thought it was automatic, at 18, but maybe I'm wrong. Or, maybe this refers to SC's state tax code?
But, he can still vote.
This bill does nothing about that.
Ok, so what's your beef with bill? :rofl
It is punishing parents if their kid votes where they live. It does that to attempt to influence the outcome of elections.
Where the parents live, or the kids live?
Where the kid lives.
Sorry, you are right, that was unclear.
The college student lives and resides at his college address.
It is punishing parents if their kid votes where they live. It does that to attempt to influence the outcome of elections.
Are you sure the parents are being punished? You sure that they just can't claim the kid as a dependent on their taxes? That wouldn't exactly be, "punishment".
Don't let it happen again.
You're talking to a college student here buddy. Young adults should vote at the residency where they are filed under taxes. Its not a difficult concept.
Or maybe we are currently influencing the outcomes of elections by having college students like myself vote in areas where they aren't filed under taxes. And this bill would fix that.
Currently the parent can claim them as a dependent. Under the bill, if the register to vote at a different residence from the parents, they cannot be claimed as a dependent.
The students are nit filing taxes. Their parents are.
If the is residing at a different residence, he's no longer a dependent. That's just life in the real world.
Just because you can be claimed as a dependent does not absolve a student from filing a tax return if he/she earns income while in school. Trust me, I know...
Wrong. It is perfectly legal to claim a college student as a dependent, and still will be, as long as that student does not vote in the district they reside in.
If they register to vote in a different precint than their parents, then they're no longer living under their parent's roof.
The students are nit filing taxes. Their parents are.
So they should be voting where their parents are. If you file your own taxes, you can vote in your own residency. Where you vote should be where your taxes are filed under.
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