Or perhaps they could just register to vote where they have their vehicles registered? Registering to vote is a declaration you live there. So long as failure to pay the car. income, and other taxes due because of where they registered doesn't disqualify one from voting, it isn't a poll tax.
You either didn't go to college or didn't have to so this.
College students are young adults breaking away from home. They are meeting the world in a college community. Their first community as an adult. They have every right to have a say in the community in proportion to the population size within the community.
That said they are temporary. Making them do this in order to vote is a poll tax fair and simple. Or its disenfranchisement by making them vote in a community they are the process of leaving.
Do I really have to explain this to you?
Another cynical reactionary policy by bitter conservatives...and given legitimacy by reasonable idiots.