Should they be allowed to vote twice?

[W brad]

Here's an interesting article on this topic of multi-state voting:

Massachusetts woman fined for voting in Connecticut

State election officials have fined a Massachusetts woman $4,000 for voting in Connecticut with an absentee ballot that tied a primary race in Groton that had to be decided by a coin toss.

The state Elections Enforcement Commission has fined Alicia Primer, of Weston, Massachusetts, who has a second home in Groton.

Primer had told The New London Day that she thought she could vote in Groton because she owned property there.

The situation figured in a tie vote in a Democratic party primary for state representative in August 2006. Elissa Wright won the Democratic nomination for a state House seat in Groton by a coin toss after a provisional ballot tied the race.

When the results were tallied last August, Rita Schmidt had one vote more than Wright. But when the mandatory recount was completed, state officials advised Palmer to count one more absentee ballot.

That absentee ballot was the one cast by Primer.

[Money2Burn]

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Instead, they try to completely take away their right to vote

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This is where I think you're making a pretty big leap. How is removing one of two votes "taking away a right"? They're not supposed to have two votes to start with! They don't have a right to keep them both!

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They will lose their right to vote in LA. If they've already moved back to LA, it means they will have to go to the other state to vote. Since many of them are poor and don't have the means to travel to another state just to vote, it effectively prevents them from voting.

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No it doesn't. This is what absentee ballots are for.

[mmctrab]

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Instead, they try to completely take away their right to vote

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This is where I think you're making a pretty big leap. How is removing one of two votes "taking away a right"? They're not supposed to have two votes to start with! They don't have a right to keep them both!

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They will lose their right to vote in LA. If they've already moved back to LA, it means they will have to go to the other state to vote. Since many of them are poor and don't have the means to travel to another state just to vote, it effectively prevents them from voting.

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No it doesn't. This is what absentee ballots are for.

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Exactly. Anything reasonable that reduces election fraud is a good thing. In 2004 tens of thousands of people voted in both NY and Florida. They voted by absentee ballot in one state and in person in the other state. You think they forgot that they already voted? There's a ton of election fraud in this country and it has to be stopped.