1) As I said earlier, I actually went to college at Arizona State University for about five years. No one wants to live on campus (the dorms are overpriced and suck massively) and the only decent affordable housing is pretty far away from campus. Thus, commuting is routinely practiced by most students. (Note, I fully believe the working class in Phoenix that don't drive in Phoenix would be around 20%, but if you can afford to go to ASU, then affording a car is no big deal) Now, if you can find a student that has the same schedule, then you can car pool, otherwise it sucks. And public transportation in Phoenix sucks big time. Even if you take it, some neighborhoods in Phoenix I wouldn't even send my worst enemy into. And since Phoenix is a city, or group of cities, sprawled over a large area, so the moral of the story is that you really need a car in Phoenix.
1) Now, as to Crissa's link, I got this gem from it:
From 5,000 voters registered in six weeks before the 2004 presidential race, the ASU Young Democrats' post-Proposition 200 registration drive has produced little more than 200 new voters in a year and a half.
Come on! It's an off-year election: of course you're going to have much less voters that are interested in it versus the Presidential election years. Hey, my wife didn't vote in this last election - and she is a Republican with a picture ID. How the heck did the Democrat's "nefarious plan" do that?
On the other hand, it does a great job of solving the problem of too many people voting for those pesky Democrats.
Well, the thing is that it was a proposition; it wasn't a law passed by a Republican controlled statehouse or anything like that. People down there are more concerned about illegal aliens than anything else. And, just like fbmf and Zherog, I had to show my driver's license here in lovely Indiana last Tuesday in order to vote. It's a comspiracy in Arizona ... except it's pretty much widespread across the country ...