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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:19:17 -0800
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From: Elaine Voss <vosse@mail.wsu.edu>
Subject: Whistle-blower
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I have an unpleasant situation currently I would like some input on from
all you knowledgeable folks.
Our AG's Office anonymously received a copy of Idaho vehicle registration
for a currently registered 47 year old grad student.  When I looked him up,
he had listed P.O. Box in Pullman for an address, and his phone number was
an ID number.  So, I sent a letter and a questionnaire stating that there
was a question about his residency and asking him to complete the form.
After two letters and some delay, so that we are now 6 weeks from the end
of the semester, he brings in the completed questionnaire.
He has been a resident of WA since 1982 EXCEPT for nine months when he
moved to Moscow, ID.  (He claims he signed a 12 month lease in Moscow, but
returned after 9 months.)  While living in ID, he registered his vehicle
and obtained a driver's license.  He moved back to WA and has a lease dated
January, 1998 to the present.  However, he only re registered his vehicle
and obtained a new WA driver's license, and voter registration March, 1999
(after receiving my letter).  He provided a Seattle area voter registration
from 1992.  The Idaho telephone number is a message phone type service,
which he claims was the cheapest he could find in the area.  
Is this a temporary sojourn even though he changed documents to Idaho, and
WAITED TWO YEARS to change them back?  It is not really a matter of
falsifying information, because when he completed an application, he was a
resident.  And, if we had not received the anonymous information, we would
never have known any difference.  Ah the joys of living on the state border.  
What do you think?  
Elaine Voss, Assistant Dean of Students
Washington State University
Lighty Student Services Building, 360
Pullman, WA  99164-1066
(509) 335-1464    FAX (509) 335-1208

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