Stafford County Superior Court Judge John Lewis ruled against a recent New Hampshire voter registration law and issued an injunction requiring the New Hampshire Secretary of State's office to recall all current voter registration forms, the Concord Monitor reported. The original law passed by the New Hampshire state legislature, which took effect in late August, subjects prospective voters in the state to the same laws that apply to permanent state residents, such as motor vehicle registration and state driver's license requirements. The League of Women Voters and four college students represented by the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union brought the case to court to challenge the law on the basis that it threatens to disenfranchise college students who may not intend to stay in New Hampshire after graduation, according to the Monitor. The Secretary of State's office will recall the 75,000 registration forms distributed after the law's passage and will print updated forms to disseminate across the state, according to the Monitor.
Since the 2000 election, states that benefit most from federal spending have voted for Republican presidential candidates even though these candidates have advocated for cuts in federal spending and programs, according to a Bloomberg article written by College government professor Dean Lacy. States in the South and Great Plains regions that vote for Republican candidates receive more money per capita from the federal government than they pay in taxes, while states in the Northeast pay more per capita in taxes than they receive in federal spending, according to the article. Many of these states will support Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney in November's election.
The graduation rates of NCAA Division-I football players continue to be significantly lower than those of their non-athlete male peers at the same colleges, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. The disparity in graduation rates is widest in the most successful athletic conferences, The Chronicle reported. For the third year in a row, the Pacific-12 Conference had the greatest gap, with football players graduating at a rate 27 points lower than other full-time students. Results were reported in the Adjusted Graduation Gap Report released on Tuesday by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Collegiate Sport Research Institute.
