The Tennessee legislature passed a law this year, requiring voters at the polls to show a government photo-ID. This newspaper story says that Hamilton County officials won’t give 96-year-old Dorothy Cooper a state photo ID. This, despite the fact that she visited the office that is responsible for handing out state ID cards. She had a rent receipt, a copy of her lease, a voter registration card, a birth certificate, and a photo ID issued by the Chattanooga police, but none of that was good enough.
County elections officials are telling her to just vote by absentee ballot, but she says she will miss voting at the polls.
Why doesn’t she get a copy of her marriage license?
Jim,
Please don’t be so asinine as Tennessee.
This makes my blood boil. I wish I’d been in line behind this lady. I would’ve call out the jackass state worker on the spot.
What if a voter is 101 plus — will the MORON regime computers record the voter as 1 plus — i.e. under 18 ???
#2 I suspect that a clerk at the driver’s license bureau would be fired for not getting proper documentation of a name change on an ID card. I doubt that this was the first time they had ever had a woman apply for an ID whose name was not the same as on her birth certificate.
What I don’t understand from the article is that women who was assisting Ms. Cooper called a “state worker” who laughed at the situation.
It sounds like she called someone by telephone. What exactly is a “state worker”.
Aren’t driver’s licenses issued by the State of Tennessee? So why not see a supervisor when you are at the driver’s license bureau?
If everyone had State-issued ID’s, then you wouldn’t need a separate voter registration. And people are more likely to keep their address current on their ID, than they are updating their voter registration.
The requirement doesn’t go into effect until next January, and the presidential primary is not until March.
If she is 96, she was born in 1914 (and almost 97) or 1915. While it is true that the 20th Amendment was not ratified until 1920; she would have been 4 or 5 at the time. So she would not have been to permitted to vote because of her age. She started voting in Chattanooga when she was in her 20s, perhaps in 1936, and only missed in 1960, because she was moving to Nashville at the time.
This has nothing to do with the pros or cons of voting ID laws; it is about the arrogance and stupidity of government bureaucrats.
If you read the story, she was presenting documents with two different names. Like #4 stated, the state can’t just issue an ID to a name without proof of that name. Maybe the lady that was helping this woman can help her get a copy of the marriage certificate if that’s the name she wants to go by…having to proving your identify isn’t unreasonable