Thank you samclem, I appreciate keeping that obnoxious insanity out of here.
Nope. He votes in Connecticut.
Do you have a cite for that? Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (http://uselectionatlas.org/) indicates Nader’s home state as the District of Columbia in both 2000 and 2004.
Another interesting fact along these lines is that if a person works for his or her home-state Senator or Representative and lives in D.C., he or she can keep residency in the home state, which means voting in that state, paying income tax in that state, registering a vehicle in that state, etc. Neither Maryland or Virginia allow this, however.
So what about the rest of us? What’s to keep us from declaring our legal residence to be a low-tax state like Texas, while living in, oh say, the People’s Republic of Maryland?
There are certain employers whose members can claim residence in a state other than that where they reside (Military, Other Federal Gubbmint), and even for those, you need to have a documented address showing you lived there at a point either directly before entering the service of the gubbmint (called a “Home of Record”), or you lived there at some time during your service.
Otherwise, it can get messy with the IRS and States involved, and they get inquisitive as to the REST of your tax situations.
Not a definitive cite but an anecdote. He’s from my hometown and votes by absentee ballot. My mom counted his absentee ballot in 2000. I suppose it’s possible he’s changed residency since then but at this point in time, I doubt it.
I’ll look for a definitive cite.
DC has a shadow Senator, does it not? Whatever that means… - Jinx
DC’s Shadow Senators are basically lobbyists paid for by the city gov’t.
I want to know this as well. Like, there are no legal reasons to not vote for yourself, right? Still, that would be weird, and I would likely vote third party anyways.