[flamesbball84]

if you can vote in an area, you should have to pay more than just sales taxes in the area. rather you actually HAVE to or not is a different story, but I think they should have to.

Why? It's just like a resident in VA living here and renting a place instead of owning one. The only taxes they pay locally are sales tax.

If you add in the vacations that a lot of people are taking, the out of town business a lot of people do, and things like that, the college kids are here just as much as someone who lives here "permanently."

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there's something called income taxes I believe.

[newandimproved]

if you can vote in an area, you should have to pay more than just sales taxes in the area. rather you actually HAVE to or not is a different story, but I think they should have to.

Why? It's just like a resident in VA living here and renting a place instead of owning one. The only taxes they pay locally are sales tax.

If you add in the vacations that a lot of people are taking, the out of town business a lot of people do, and things like that, the college kids are here just as much as someone who lives here "permanently."

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there's something called income taxes I believe.

state income tax...yes. But not city income tax. Most college students have jobs in the cities they go to school in. So, yeah....

[SuperJon]

My state income taxes are being taken out in Virginia even though I'm an NC resident.

[Sly Fox]

This Texan is wondering what these state income taxes are that are being referenced in this thread.

[JDUB]

its something hippies invented to destroy the universe and erase global warming, err climate change

[RagingTireFire]

Dang dirty hippies.

[Hold My Own]

I just love everything about all of this...legal issues (that we'll win), getting kids that wouldnt have voted to vote...tell me that Doc isnt just loving this right now

[ALUmnus]

The only taxes that the students are missing out on are the personal property tax on their vehicle and any vehicle registration/drivers license fees they would have to pay. Which is a really petty point the localers are crying about just to keep people from voting. And honestly, I would say that a good chunk of the students don't own the car that they're driving, so it wouldn't effect that anyway.

[SuperJon]

If a student registers their car in a different state then they can no longer be on their parents' car insurance Yes, I know some college students have their own insurance, but a lot choose to stay on their parents' coverage and pay their parents because it's hundreds of dollars cheaper.

[ATrain]

The only taxes that the students are missing out on are the personal property tax on their vehicle and any vehicle registration/drivers license fees they would have to pay. Which is a really petty point the localers are crying about just to keep people from voting. And honestly, I would say that a good chunk of the students don't own the car that they're driving, so it wouldn't effect that anyway.

I left my voter registration in Farmville...so I'm not paying any taxes to Lynchburg.

[ALUmnus]

But what taxes? The only thing Lynchburg City will tax you for is your property and what you buy. Everyone pays taxes for what they buy. If you don't own anything, then they can't tax you for it.

[JDUB]

in a way students do pay property taxes. most off campus students rent, and property tax is factored into the rent so they are paying in that way, no matter how indirect

[JDUB]

there is now 3200 students registered

[Kolzilla41]

They said on the news that the Registrars office does not know if they will be able to catch up with the paperwork by then. Then someone suggested that LU volunteer(CSER) and I never heard anything else about it. I think this would be a great idea and also showing the city that Liberty does care.

[RagingTireFire]

They said on the news that the Registrars office does not know if they will be able to catch up with the paperwork by then.

How would they have a choice? If the paperwork is filed legally by the registration deadline, they have to get caught up. Anything less would be disenfranchising legally registered voters.

[JDUB]

They said on the news that the Registrars office does not know if they will be able to catch up with the paperwork by then. Then someone suggested that LU volunteer(CSER) and I never heard anything else about it. I think this would be a great idea and also showing the city that Liberty does care.

LU sent something like 200 people over to help, and they only took around 40 and sent the rest back. they can't say we didn't try

[Kolzilla41]

That is great to hear. I hadn't heard if we had responded to it or not.

[Sly Fox]

Conservative university could swing Virginia

By Shea Connelly
Cavalier Daily

Editor's Note: Shea Connelly is a writer for the Cavalier Daily, the leading news source for the University of Virginia. This article was brought to CNN.com by UWIRE, the leading provider of student-generated content. UWIRE aims to identify and promote the brightest young content creators and deliver their work to a larger audience via professional media partners such as CNN.com. Visit UWIRE.com to learn more.

(UWIRE) -- The commonwealth of Virginia has traditionally been a Republican stronghold -- the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state was in 1964.

But with recent polls showing Sen. John McCain only slightly ahead of Sen. Barack Obama, Virginia remains up for grabs. And the last two statewide offices -- for governor and U.S. senator -- have been won by Democrats.

Given the close nature of the presidential race, Jerry Falwell, Jr., chancellor of Liberty University, recently launched an ambitious effort to register all 10,500 eligible student voters at the fundamental Baptist institution in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Falwell kicked off the voter registration drive September 22, urging students -- including those from out-of-state -- to register locally.

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[Cider Jim]

the fundamental Baptist institution in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Does anyone within Liberty still use that term to describe us? I haven't heard it used in 20 years. Isn't the current term "evangelical"?

[Sly Fox]

Talk to some of your colleagues in the Religion Dept and the Seminary. These terms still generate a great deal of discussion.

[PastorZack]

We still better be a "fundamental" Baptist Institution!!! If not, the Old Hags will be making quite a showing on the mountain sometime soon.

[Sly Fox]

New voters increase Lynchburg registrations by more than 12 percent

By Ray Reed
Published: September 30, 2008

New-voter registrations in Lynchburg have boosted the voter rolls by an unprecedented 12 percent this year, with many applications from Liberty University students still to be processed.

The deadline for registering is Oct. 6, just five days away, and more than 200 applications are pouring in daily, said Pat Bower, Lynchbuhttp://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/arti ... nt/8926/rg registrar.

Volunteer helpers have enabled her office to keep pace.

Almost 3,000 voter application forms were processed during September, Bower said.

Liberty students sent an estimated 3,500 applications, and more than half of those had been entered into the voter database as of Monday.

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[JDUB]

https://www.liberty.edu/libertyjournal/ ... &artid=420

Voter registration drive nets media attention

posted on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 by Teresa Dunham | in General News

Media interest in Liberty University’s campus-wide campaign to register student voters locally is gaining momentum.

The Carter Glass Mansion turned into a temporary news set on Tuesday afternoon as CBS television correspondent Thalia Assuras interviewed Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. for a segment to air on “The Early Show” on Thursday, Oct. 2.

Falwell spoke earlier with a National Public Radio journalist based out of Washington, D.C., and CNN featured the initiative on its website the same day.

[Sly Fox]

Thousands of Liberty students registered

Christa Desrets and Ray Reed
Published: October 8, 2008

Liberty University submitted more than 4,200 completed voter registration forms to the Lynchburg City Registrar on Monday, the deadline to register to vote in November’s election.

“We were pleased with the final tally,” Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. said Wednesday. Including an estimated 2,000 students who already were registered to vote locally, “that puts us in that 50- to 75-percent range that I was hoping for (out of Liberty’s potentially eligible 10,500 students).”

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[qkslvrsrfrboy]

How will this affect the local, city elections, in everyones mind. I cant find what all is going to be on the ballot, but Im sure alot of kids signing up for the first time are just thinking they are voting for President, and not things like city council, etc.