Anybody Home? Romney Voted In MA Election Using Son's Address

If he's still buying a home in Massachusetts, then this is legit.

My wife and I and our little kids moved from D.C. to Virginia in 2008, physically abandoning our house in early February that year as we got it ready to put on the market. We bounced around my various in-laws' homes in Northern Virginia, and eventually for a very short time even a Tysons Corner hotel, for several months before getting a contract on our D.C. house and renting and moving into an Arlington townhouse. A couple months later we bought our house in McLean where we now live, but the point is during our nomadic existence in NoVA we were registered to vote in D.C. the whole time. Only upon renting the Arlington townhouse did we re-register in Virginia, because only then were we finally staying someplace where our inhabitancy didn't have a fixed, known end date, and further we would have returned to the D.C. house anyway if we didn't get an offer (and we got only one in writing, that we accepted, after several months). And, indeed, I don't remember if we'd already physically vacated our D.C. house when I voted in the D.C. Democratic presidential primary in early February; it's possible we already were staying with my sister-in-law and her husband and kids in Reston.

What Mitt is doing is substantially the same thing, there is no legal or ethical issue.

ANOTHER DIRTY SCUMBALL. I RESIDE IN MA SO I HAD FIRST HAND AT THIS SLOB

That's not voter fraud, cause he's not with ACORN!

Who cares whether or not he committed voter fraud. He's got Reagan hair! Go, Mittens!!

The story says that Mr. Romney owns homes in New Hampshire and California.

Is he receiving a tax break on either by claiming a "homestead" exemption i New Hampshire or California?

Home is where the "homestead" is folks.

DCCyclone, why'd you leave the District?

Oh please. Romney's got such a foot-in-mouth problem that this will be the least of his 2012 worries. Guaranteed, he'll say something stupid about this, or something else, over the next couple years, and he won't even come close. Also, he will never pass muster with the fundies, or the tea-baggers. I'm just enjoying watching the internecine blood-letting going on in the GOP at the moment - it takes my mind off our other problems.

Voting in Massachusetts isn't a problem per se -- but if he registered to vote somewhere else since leaving MA it could be. In most states, registering in a new location is supposed to invalidate your previous registration.

I think most of these comments are jumping to conclusions. You do not need to actually own a residence to be a legal resident of any state. You do need an address. The fact that former Governor Romney sold his former residence in Massachusetts and also owns property in other states does not mean that his claim to reside at his son's residence is fraudulent. One of many factors, perhaps, but not dispositive by any means. As for Romney's taxes, he will almost certainly file Massachusetts state income taxes and will likely claim a lawful deduction for his out-of-state earnings to the extent that he actually paid income taxes to other states on those earnings. This silly argument is a non-starter in our global economy. If Democrats want to complain about voter registration problems, put Romney aside and go after the Republicans who want to cancel Democratic voter registrations when homes are foreclosed or Democrats kids go to college or take seasonal jobs out of state.