Provisional ballots are shaky. To verify, you have to go in to wherever your voting authority is within a certain time period to contest whatever is was that was at issue.

Not always. Mine was automatically reviewed by the Board of Elections and a favorable determination of validity was issued before the polls closed.

In 2006, nearly a third were tossed.

While it angers a lot of people, I think most of those were tossed because they would not affect the outcome of the election and therefore there was no sense in spending taxpayer money to validate them. I realize this causes some people (sadly, many service people) to feel their vote wasn't counted, but it doesn't change the math.

Where do you pay state income tax? That's your location of residence and where you vote. No, you shouldn't be able to vote for commissioner in both places, one is your home, the other is a vacation home, slumlord house, whatever, but is not the residence of record.

Well, there is no "record" that your residency is clearly marked on. If there was, it would have negated by needing to sue the Board of Regents for residency classification :)

And if they deny someone the right to vote based on the fact that they are no longer a resident, shouldn't they also give back their taxes? :)

We're getting a little off-track here as your eligibility to vote is predicated on citizenship not being a resident. We tax lots of people who can't vote.

In one year, I was a full time student and didn't have any income, therefore I didn't pay income taxes in any state - yet I should be able to vote.

In another year, I paid state income taxes in three states. In another year, I paid taxes to two states between the voter registration deadline and the election. I have also held multiple state's driver's licenses in one year. For that matter, I legally lived in Kentucky with a Texas driver's license that had a Georgia address. No one would take my cheque :)

Absentee ballots allow a person to vote where they are registered and not live their at all, and quite legally so.

RE: Lose your House, Lose your vote