25 Feb 2012 7:05 pm
How can anyone become elderly and never have had an ID. I swear some of the damned off the wall stuff y'all throw up as a defense.It's not always that they never have had one. Many older people give up their licenses when they no longer drive.Do you live in the real world?Although some people actually never did have one, and couldn't get one.Donna Jean Suggs was born at home, delivered by a midwife in 1949. She grew up, got a Social Security card and found work as a home health aide. Try as she might, though, she couldn't get a birth certificate. That meant she couldn't get a driver's license or register to vote."I fought with them and fought with them," she said of the local and state officials. "I prayed and prayed." In time, said Suggs, 62, who lives in Sumter, S.C., "I gave up on things" — like voting.http://www.aarp.org/...-americans.htmlWhat about elderly people who have been voting for decades before these new laws?Their signature is in the books at their polling place.Should they now be denied the right to vote, because they don't have a government issued photo ID?When a 96-year-old Tennessee woman went to apply for an ID, she was denied because she didn’t have her marriage license. Now another senior citizen in Tennessee, 91-year-old Virginia Lasater, may not be able to vote because she wasn’t able to stand in a long line at a DMV to get the necessary ID. Lasater says that she has voted and worked in campaigns for 70 years, but when she tried to get a photo ID recently, she discovered the center was packed and there were no chairs available. A clerk told Lasater and her son there was nothing they could do. http://thinkprogress...line-for-hours/She voted for 70 years.....but no more, because she's unable to stand in line at the DMV.It's so nice that you live in a world where everyone is rich and no one is old or disabled. Edited by MistyBlue, 25 February 2012 - 08:08 PM.