Ohio Figures Out How to Have More Voters Then Residents

In what some are classifying as an election loophole, Ohio has a law on the books which will allow people to register to vote the week of Sept 30 - Oct 6. Ohio law states that a person must only reside in the state for 30 days to meet the residency requirement and therefore be eligible to vote.
Why is this a concern for primarily Republicans? Because college will be back in session, so all those students will be able to register to vote. Conventional wisdom says the youth vote will go to Obama, even though in the past the under 25 crowd has a very low percentage of actually voting.

Ohio has created a window in the election calendar that would allow residents instant gratification - register one minute, vote the next. It's also given the campaigns of Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain a chance to bank thousands of first-time voters during that Sept. 30 to Oct. 6 window.

Now what could possibly go wrong? How many Ohioans will vote early in Ohio and then say go to another another state and vote on Nov 4th? How about folks who zip across the Ohio border between now and the end of Aug to establish residency, vote and then scoot back to their home state to vote? Or maybe they will simply do like Wexler (D-?), who represents Florida in the congress but lives in Massachusetts. The sad part is most people in his district don't have a problem with that.

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