| NiKKoM said: Well an easy example that was on TV was that some elderly black woman now needed to show her birth certifcate.. Which she didn't have to use before when voting and will probably be a hard time to find for her cause her parents didn't registered her cause of the racism back in the 1950's... Just because the laws have changed by now doesn't mean don't still have an affect on people nowadays.. |
She can't get a passport, either. Or a job. Or drive in some places. (Not that I'm advocating letting women drive anywhere.)
I don't think that dwelling on one person's exceptional situation is useful for evaluating voter ID laws as a whole, and it really doesn't have anything to do at all with whether or not certain states should be able to have such laws (like Rhode Island) while certain ones can't (like basically the entire South).
