Re: Looks like Republicans don't want Veterans to vote after all

On 8 May 2008 00:29:15 GMT, Dover Beach <moon.blanched@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Boron Elgar <boron_elgar@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:74h4249bikv3ll4n9q43doaip4mn04755u@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
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>> On Tue, 6 May 2008 22:50:29 -0500, "ZBicyclist"
>> <ZBicyclist@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>The Weasel wrote:
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>>>> A free id is not a poll tax.
>>>>
>>>Indeed (although there's a fee for a driver's license or a 
>>>pass****t).
>>>
>>>You have to have ID to drink, to drive, to pay by check, to take 
>>>books out of the library, to have your kids attend a public school, 
>>>to ride in an airplane, to rent a car, and a host of other things in 
>>>life.  I don't think it causes much problem to show ID when voting. 
>>>The number of people who lack ID (such as the bicycle-riding veteran 
>>>in the original post) has to be very small.  The whole issue seems 
>>>too small to be worth fighting over. 
>>>
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>> Someone capture this post and save it.
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>> And be sure Dom gets a copy.
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>And not just Dom.  I need a copy too.  I'm the one who had to drag my
>mother all over hell and gone trying to get her enough ID to live in the
>world -- and vote, too, by the way.  For voter reg., she could submit a
>utility bill in her name and address or a copy of a government-issued
>check in her name and address.  Except she was living in my house and
>all the bills are in my name or my husband's name.  She gets Social
>Security, but it's direct-deposit and they don't send any paper
>confirmation.  
>
>Denver recently closed a whole bunch of DMV locations, so I took her one
>day to the nearest DMV and the line was out the door.  She's old,
>neurologically impaired, and incontinent.  You want to wait three hours
>with her to see if they'd cough up an ID?  Finally I sent away for a
>copy of her birth certificate, which thankfully wasn't too difficult
>since she was born in Baltimore and they still have records from the
>1920s.  I took her and the birth certificate to the Post Office and got
>her a pass****t.  Of course the pass****t doesn't have her address, so she
>can't use it to register to vote.  I don't even remember how I handled
>it in the end; it might have involved white-out and a fax machine.  But
>she's 100% entitled to vote and it was a sonofa***** to prove it. 


You deserve a  gold star and a big kiss right in the middle of your
library science.

What do the other folks in her facility do? Is there any ombudsman to
help people negotiate all of that or do those residents wind up unable
to vote because of all that sort of red tape?

Boron