Senior tries and tries to get ID card so she can vote

[TexasTowelie]

Braving the chill and drizzle, a nearly 80-year-old woman in a wheelchair rolls into the Texas Department of Public Safety building on U.S. 290 on a recent morning, her stiff upper lip softened only by the presence of an oxygen tube.

She's got her favorite cartoon character, the resilient Tigger, on her sweatshirt, two daughters by her side, and a fat brown envelope that should settle things, once and for all.

They say the third time is the charm. For Laura Troth, it better be.

She doesn't know how many more times she can get her daughters to wheel her into the DPS office so she can get a state identification card that would allow her to comply with the newly implemented voter ID law.

More at http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/columnists/falkenberg/article/Senior-tries-and-tries-to-get-ID-card-so-she-can-5226268.php?t=bd34f0742fd4bfc38c&t=bd34f0742f&t=bd34f0742f .

[Gothmog]

1. The Texas voter id law is a horrible law

The only purpose of this law is to steal elections

[joshdawg]

2. Texas has a republican lock on the legislature,

and arguably, the stupidest governor in the history of the United States. All of which makes this kind of thing commonplace.

Then there's Abbott and Dewhurst. That's a pair to draw to.

Overall, Texans are pretty decent, but the government of Texas sucks, big time.
I know, I live here.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. even the former Speaker of the House had some difficulty getting the ID

He let his license expire when he quite driving, and when he decided to get the non driving ID for voting, he couldn't get one because his license had been expired too many years. At the time he quit driving, no one could forsee the need for a voting ID.

He managed to get an ID, but not without some effort.

[SamKnause]

3. The Land of the Free does not want people to vote.

With Liberty and Justice for All; except when you try to exercise your rights.

How sad, how very very sad.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. They're trying to discourage as many of the "wrong people" from voting as possible.

[Enthusiast]

5. They hate us for our freedom(s)?