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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Daily Kos: Eldery Tennessee voter can't register to vote because she can't stand in line

Daily Kos: Eldery Tennessee voter can't register to vote because she can't stand in line

Remember the story of Dorothy Cooper, the 96-year-old Tennessee woman who's only missed one election in her life, but now can't get an ID that would allow her to vote? Tennessee recently passed a new law to keep people like Cooper from voting, requiring often difficult to obtain photo IDs. Cooper couldn't get hers because she doesn't have a marriage certificate, despite having "a rent receipt, a copy of her lease, her voter registration card and her birth certificate."  Read More Here

h/t Adrienne

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