Student Voting

John D. Killian, 3rd, Deputy Attorney General, and Anne X. Alpern, Attorney General,

You request advice whether students in full time attendance at educational institutions may qualify as “absentee electors” within the meaning of Act No. 789, approved January 8, 1960. Section 102 (y) of the act defines “absentee elector” as one who “on the occurrence of any election is unavoidably absent from the county of his voting residence by reason of his duties, business or occupation.”

Webster’s New International Dictionary, 2nd Ed., *185defines “business” as: “Quality or state of being busy . . . That which…