Meet the Women Fighting a Voter ID Law
Posted on 08/28/2013 by Lisa McElroy
... In North Carolina state court, Alberta Currie, 78, claims she’s no longer able to vote, as she has done since 1956. Delivered at home by a midwife during the Jim Crow era, Currie never had a birth certificate. Her last driver’s license expired nine years ago. Her sister, who could attest to her birth date, has Alzheimer’s disease.
So Currie can only vote by absentee ballot. That’s not enough for her. The dignity of voting in person, at the polls, matters, she insists ...
In a suit filed in federal court, Rosanell Eaton, 92, claims that the North Carolina law prevents her from voting because the name on her driver’s license does not match the name on her birth certificate or voter registration card. Eaton is a social activist who has registered more than 40,000 voters.
To register to vote for the first time, she had to ride a mule to the courthouse. Asked to recite the preamble to the Constitution, she complied without missing a word, she says. Completing the paperwork was “very, very stressful,” she said recently (watch the video below). “Here I am at 92 years old doing the same battling. I am fed up and fired up” ...
http://blog.aarp.org/2013/08/28/meet-the-women-fighting-a-voter-id-law/