RESTRICTIONS ON VOTING

Owing to the approach of the national election November 7, it has been found advisable to report the restrictions and eligibility rules which surround the student voter.

To be eligible to vote a student must be 21 and have resided a year in the state and six months in Cambridge.

In summing up a recent case dealing with the eligibility of a student voter, Judge R. F. Raymond '94 said, "Sojourning here for the purpose of gaining an education does not make one a resident under our voting laws. Going to any college to be educated simply as a student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intention to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence."

It is to be noted that all legal voters must be self-supporting, as this provision has caused a great deal of question in the past elections.

The names of the permanent student voters of Cambridge will appear on the official list of voters which will be posted in many conspicuous places in the city next week. The polls will be open in the various precincts on Tuesday, November 7, from 6 o'clock until 4.30 o'clock.