Civics: “what exactly are you telling out-of-state students about residence?”
🤑When UW-Madison wants tuition, they explain the rules on residency very strictly (“full twelve month period prior to enrollment”).
🗳️When UW-Madison describes voting, they tell students only half the story (“have resided in Wisconsin for at least 28 consecutive days”).
The standards are of course governed by different state laws. But UW-Madison’s voting explanation only says 28 days (Wis. Stat. 6.02), and doesn’t explain the more strict requirement in Wis. Stat. 6.10. As @RickEsenberg pointed out, it is not just 28 days, but this: “The residence of a person is the place where the person’s habitation is fixed, without any present intent to move, and to which, when absent, the person intends to return.” Meaning, like, you are actually a resident of Wisconsin and your real home isn’t your mom and dad’s house in Minnesota.
This came up because of an anecdote I heard about on-campus voter registration drives going on right now and what is being said to out-of-state students. These are just stories, but it would be nice if perhaps some reporters could go and ask the question: “what exactly are you telling out-of-state students about residence?”
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Somewhat Related:
Exclusive: I found a buried official Chinese roster showing that before Steven Chu became Obama’s Energy Secretary, a CCP United Front group listed him as an “overseas honorary president.”
I found no prior U.S. reporting on it—and it never came up in his Senate hearing. 🧵
