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Senate bill seeks to curb college vote

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.

They aren't taking away the right to vote, you can still vote, albeit by an absentee ballet at your home address.
 
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 college student lives and resides at his college 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.

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?
 
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.

Not where you are registered to vote, but where you register to vote.
 
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?

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.
 
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.

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".

Sorry, you are right, that was unclear.

Don't let it happen again.
 
The college student lives and resides at his college address.

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.
 
It is punishing parents if their kid votes where they live. It does that to attempt to influence the outcome of elections.

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.
 
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".

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.



Don't let it happen again.

:lol:
 
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.

The students are nit filing taxes. Their parents are.
 
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.

If the is residing at a different residence, he's no longer a dependent. That's just life in the real world.
 
The students are nit filing taxes. Their parents are.

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...
 
If the is residing at a different residence, he's no longer a dependent. That's just life in the real world.

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.
 
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...

Nothing about the bill involves the students income.
 
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.
 
If the student only lives in a dorm, then this bill is stupid because their permanent address is most likely their parents address. Just because I lived in a dorm for 7 months does not make that my permanent address. If the students lives off question, then that is a different story.
 
If they register to vote in a different precint than their parents, then they're no longer living under their parent's roof.

If you do not register, but live in the same place as in your example, you are still a dependent. The bill does not make a distinction on where people live.
 
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.
 
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.

Why should you vote any place other than your residence? That makes zero sense.
 
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