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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWendy Davis forced to sign afidavit to cast early vote.
Her driver's license includes her maiden name and therefore didn' t exactly match her voter registration. Fucking. Bullshit!
http://keranews.org/post/new-voter-id-law-forces-governor-candidate-wendy-davis-sign-affidavit-vote
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)arely staircase
(12,482 posts)That's the whole point of the law, making it harder for likely Democratic voters to cast ballots.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)They can put all the lipstick and fancy clothes on it they want but it's still a pig.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)It just wouldn't surprise me.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)That's going to be happening to a lot of people.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)organizations that help individual voters get to the polls and navigate the system. I would do it if I lived in TX or any other state with such voter suppression laws. But here in CT we have no such suppression for which I am grateful and happy...
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Yes.
watch the sky
(129 posts)it applies to even a known politican like Wendy. I kind of think this is stupid, an affadavit that is when a maiden name doesn't match the one on the rolls.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Mercy me!
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Poll taxes, literacy tests, etc. But we werent a true democracy. And that is what they want. In fact they need it to have any power.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)this was the usual back in the day. I never thought I'd see those days again in my long life. It is sad...
arely staircase
(12,482 posts)Those things were before my time - at leastvad adulthood. But they are back. But take heart. It is only because they are losing their power. And we are hitting back as smart and hard as we can in Texas at least. My job is doing it in my precinct.
As MLK said the moral arc is long but it bends toward justice.