Show h Loss Of Vote Vole Faces Movers 3 t SPECIAL TO THE CLIPPER How HoA often do Davis County i residents move from one location loca loca- I tion tOD to another is iJ HOW MANY OF them will be bej beI j I Ineligible to vote In the next I local and Presidential elections of Inability to meet the thet t minimum residence perIod a requirements The mobility rate locally and In most other parts of the country country country coun coun- try has Increased considerably in recent years A current Census Census Census Cen Cen- sus Bureau report shows that 37 million people In the United States were living at different addresses last year than the year before AND THE expectation Is that about eight million persons will willbe willbe willbe be unable to vote In the next Presidential election because of I residence requirements In Davis County the tendency to pick up and move to locations in other states is not as great as it is among residents oS other communities APPROXIMATELY 68 per percent percent percent cent of the people now living Inthe in inthe inthe the local area were born In Utah and have 11 lived ved in the state all their lives the latest government government government govern govern- ment tabulation shows Compared wit tse e amount of moving about that has been tak- tak il place In other parts of the United Stat States s where only 66 per cent of the population are still living in the state of their birth this represents real sta sta- In the Mountain States 49 per cent are so ON THE OTHER hand within the borders of their own state Davis County residents are mobile Census Census Census Cen Cen- quite a year five-year sus Bureau study shows Approximately per cent of the local population above age fi five ve moved Into the county from other parts of ot the state sate during that period and per cent moved to new addresses within the county i I CONSIDERATION is now be being being be- be I ing given In Congress and in some state legislatures to easIng easing easing ing the voting eligibility rules I affecting people who have lived in new localities for a relatively relative relatIve- ly short time Now b before fore Congress is abill a bill entitled Residency Voting Act of 1967 It would reduce the qualifying period In federal I elections to a mere two months It would set Sept 1 as the unIform uni uniform uniform unI- unI form qualifying date IN N NEARLY every state the local residence requirements for voting ran range g e from six I months to two years In New NewYork NewYork NewYork I York it is now three months |