Footnote: What’s the rule on where college students can vote?

In last week?s coverage of President Obama?s visit to Madison, a UW-Madison student from Minnesota was quoted as saying she waited in line more than five hours to see the president but likely wouldn?t vote this November because getting an absentee ballot would be too much work. To be legally eligible to vote in a place, the person must have lived there at least 10 days, said Reid Magney of the Government Accountability Board. So if a college student considers a campus residence home and meets that requirement, he or she can vote at that address, he said.