Matter of Robbins v. Chamberlain

Section 4 of article II of the State Constitution and section 151 of the Election Law say that, for purposes of registering and voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence “ by reason of his presence or absence * * * while a student of any seminary of learning ”. Those enactments have been construed by the courts, and held to mean at least this: that a student who moves into residence on the campus of an educational institution does not, without more, accomplish a change of voting residence (Matter of Garvey, 147 N. Y. 117; Matter of Barry, 164 N. Y. 18; Matter of…