I'm afraid this diary is, by necessity, going to be a bit short.
I just got back from teaching my first class of the day at my local community college. When I got there, a couple of my students began bombarding me with questions about the election.
Then one came up to my table and told me he just found out this morning that he'd been registered as a Republican (he's not and he was scandalized) and in a different county, one he doesn't and has never lived in.
As you might expect, there were all kinds of people on campus for the past several months registering students to vote. He told me that he had registered at one of these on-campus tables some time back, and he thought everything was copacetic until today.
I did the best I could--I suggested he go to the county election commissioner and try to get things straightened out. The class found him the address and even the route (smartphones are a godsend, really). I let him go do that--his vote was more important than my class.
Still, it makes me wonder. At first, I was a bit puzzled. Why would someone try to suppress California's vote? After all, we're a given, and even the Senate race is a given. I didn't even know who was running against Feinstein, and when I saw the name on the ballot, I said, "Who?"
But then I remembered Proposition 30. In retrospect, it's a bit obvious. Who are most likely to come out in support of 30? College students. So if you register them in precincts and counties they don't live in, they can't vote, or it's going to be a hardship for them to vote and maybe they won't bother.
Color me a bit disgusted.
[Edit: Riverside County & Riverside City College.]