So it wouldn’t do any good for the President of the United States (and the First Lady) to vouch for her?
GOP: She is a Kenyan, just like Obama. She shouldn’t be allowed to vote and must be deported.
My father remembers going as a child with his father and uncle to a government office where one brother had to attest to the other’s identity because there weren’t birth certificates back then. How times have changed.
These voter suppression laws are so wrong. These lovely patriotic elders are hit so hard, and forced to jump through too many hoops to produce documentation they may never get to keep the voting right and privilege they have cherished from the moment they got it.
The GOP renews my hatred of them constantly. (Sorry, Mom. You taught me not to hate, but it applies here.)
I’m with you. I pretty much hate every Republican out there (almost all of them) because they either support these kinds of laws and policies or they are complicit.
They make it very difficult not to hate them don’t they?
Kris Kobach and Hans von Spakovsky are doing their happy dance!
jw1
Not in South Carolina it wouldn’t
It’s not just the elders. My niece was trying to help a young boy in Ohio that was somewhat estranged from his family, and the system is absolutely circular. The document you need requires another, but you can’t get that because you don’t have the other requirements. It’s nuts, and no wonder kids give up.
So (thanks to the TSA) you can’t travel without a picture ID, but without going in person to the state you were born in and spending a few weeks hassling with the bureaucracy, good luck getting the copy of the birth certificate that would allow you to get the ID. Brilliant.
Also, I understand that the discrimination against older women is very real. Even if they have their birth certificate, they have to also have all their matrimonial paperwork as well to prove their current name.
This is precisely why I get incensed when folks say, why shouldn’t everyone show some ID, forgetting that the draconian laws make it so difficult to obtain some of the documents required to get the ID. White privilege!!
Off topic, but has anyone seen Mr. Ralph Von Horst? I am concerned. I know he was in ill health. I miss his lovely posts.
Gee, I don’t see what the problem is here - my bank offers a free safety deposit box with a $100,000 average balance. It can be used to keep valuable papers such as birth certificates, passports, titles to multiple cars, deeds to houses, etc.
Why don’t these people take advantage of free safety deposit boxes to store their papers?
\snark, in case that wasn’t clear…
This is a feature of such GOP laws, not a bug. Who is surprised?
I wish the “media” would interview the lawmakers who voted in these draconian voter ID laws & hold them accountable with real life voter suppression examples.
In order for McLaurin to receive a new photo ID, she must present the D.C. Department of Motor Vehicles with her birth certificate from South Carolina. But she needs a photo ID to get the birth certificate, she told Milloy.
Now just why does that NOT surprise me at all, the ID laws in action.
I’ve mentioned this in other posts but when I went to the TN DMV to obtain a driver’s license soon after I move here after retirement I was told that my original PA birth certificate was not valid as it was too old. Then upon receiving a new one from PA was told that the BC was not valid because it had changed from the original. PA needed to send a certified letter to TN explaining that they had revised the BC before the state would accept. So this move by SC does not in the least make me surprised.
I simply want to vomit when these heartbreaking stories appear. Dammit, Prez, step in a fix this shit! We all know you can with a single call to the State Department and get her a passport ASAP.
Yup. When I tried to get my driver’s license last year, they said they needed either a birth certificate or a passport. I had an expired passport, so I tried the birth certficiate route. I was born overseas and the only “birth certificate” was issued by the hospital and it looks like it was mimeographed onto tissue paper. They wouldn’t accept it as official, nor the “U.S. citizen born overseas” document issued by the U.S. State Department (“it’s not a birth certificate,” they told me). I ended up getting the feds to provide a new passport, then taking the passport back to the state DMV.
That’s all for a middle class white guy in the suburbs, and they still made me jump through a bunch of hoops for simple picture ID!
Voter fraud. Pure and simple.