Alberta Currie, 78, with her twin daughters Linda, left, and Brenda. Currie has never had a birth certificate and fears she may be prevented from voting under North Carolina’s restrictive new voter ID law. (David Zucchino / Los Angeles Times / August 15, 2013)
I saw the article below on Facebook from Whitney Bost, 2nd Vice-Chair, 5th District Democrats of North Carolina, concerning the new voter ID legislation in North Carolina. She may want to consider hosting a MoveOn.org vigil against illegal military action in Syria instead of looking for articles from Los Angeles trying to play the race card to influence elections.
Voting has consequences as these looters are now having to face. Unfortunately, both parties are culpable for destroying our country and transforming our military from a band of brothers into Saudi mercenaries. As for Ms. Bost, this is one of the worst straw man arguments I have ever seen.
David DeGerolamo
North Carolina voters fear new ID law will keep them from polls
The election law, which its Republican supporters say is needed to combat fraud, requires state-issued documentation that not everyone can easily get.
Alberta Currie, the great-granddaughter of slaves, was born in a farmhouse surrounded by tobacco and cotton fields. Her mother, Willie Pearl, gave birth with the assistance of a midwife.
No birth certificate was issued; a birth announcement was handwritten into the Currie family Bible.
Today, 78 years later, that absence of official documentation may force Currie to sit out an election for the first time since 1956. Under a restrictive new voter ID law in North Carolina, a state-issued photo ID is required for voting as of the 2016 election.
Voters can obtain a state-issued ID at no cost. But that requires getting to a state driver’s license office, waiting in line — and providing documents that many voters lack, among them an original or certified birth certificate and original Social Security card.
The law’s Republican backers say the new measure combats voter fraud and ensures voting integrity. Civil rights groups contend that the bureaucratic obstacles are a part of a blatant attempt to make it difficult for Democratic-leaning voters — particularly African Americans, students and the elderly — to obtain IDs needed to vote.
The funny thing is how she managed all these years to avoid showing any ID. Must never have bought liquor. Must never have had a drivers license. Must never have signed any legal documents. Must never flown. Must never have done anything requiring identification.
Ya, no library card, no banking account of any kind, never cashed a check and never entered school. What a wonderful it must be.
She is only one person what about the rest of the voter frauds? The problems that us “legal citizens” encounter where we must produce some kind of ID is astounding. I’m not for a national ID because of all the other things the Feds will throw into it but I am in favor of an ID required for voting. Every time I have voted I had to show an ID. Mass. NH,Cal, WV, and all of the other states I voted in required an ID. Maybe it was because I am white. Hey, I’ve been discriminated against. WTF What’s next eye scan? Then the blind will be protesting. Where does it end? Is one eye or two required?