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The indomitable Augustine Carter
02/05/2013 4:06 PM by John M
Voting Rights 2013: Augustine Carter d.o.b. 1/6/28 by Eric Byler and Annabel Park for Story of America, featuring one of the heroines of 22nd Street:
Augustine Carter, an 85-year-old voter in Richmond, Virginia, tells her story of the trouble she went through to vote in 2012. Born in 1928, she never had a birth certificate and she never got a driver’s license because she decided years ago that driving wasn’t for her. Her baptism certificate was sufficient for all identification purposes until the 2012 election. She had to go through a Kafka-esque bureaucracy including being told by someone at the Motor Vehicle Administration that she couldn’t prove that she was not a terrorist.
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For years laws have required everyone to have state issued ID cards. Sorry she has slipped by so far, but ….
Have they? I’ve never once been asked to show ID to vote over the last 2 decades.
Tyrell is right.
I’ve NEVER had to show an ID to vote.
I believe she states that she had a state issued ID. The problem started when she went to have it renewed.