91-Year-Old Who Can’t Stand Unable To Get Voter ID In Tennessee

[demmiblue]

Source: TPMMuckraker


If you’re trying to avoid being disenfranchised by your state’s voter ID law, it’s usually a good idea to avoid being a minority, a college student or poor. As it turns out you also probably shouldn’t be 91-years-old and have trouble standing for a long period of time.

Tennessee resident Virginia Lasater found out the hard way after she was unable to get the photo ID required to vote her the state because she wasn’t able to stand in a long line at a DMV:

Lasater told The Daily News Journal that she has voted and worked in campaigns for 70 years. She recently moved to Murfreesboro and on Wednesday registered to vote at the local election commission.

A new law requires voters to show a photo ID at the polls. Since Lasater doesn’t have a photo on her driver’s license, she went to get one. But the testing center was packed and there were no chairs available.

Her son says a clerk told them there was nothing they could do.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/91-year-old_who_cant_stand_unable_to_get_voter_id_in_tennessee.php

:grr:

[spanone]

1. shame, shame, shame on republican legislators in my pathetic state of tennessee

[tularetom]

2. I could be wrong but...

I think this has finally been resolved and she succeeded in registering to vote.

On edit: Oops, my bad. Different lady in TN.

I blame the poor education I received in Tennessee public schools for my error.

[spanone]

4. even if resolved, there will be many more that won't.....

not everyone will have the benefit of media exposure.....to those it will be 'tough luck'

[The Wielding Truth]

5. This is true. Many voters will lose their right to vote due to these restrictive laws.

[sakabatou]

3. ADA these people

This is uncalled for.

[dkf]

Yes. This is more than for voting.

[indepat]

6. The effin' rethuglicans who voted for this shameful law don't give a diddle-dy-f*ck

about the Virginia Lasaters in the state: a key rethuglican senator has said as much. :patriot:

[SoutherDem]

7. Don't worry she would probably vote Democrat anyway...

Oh wait that is why the Republicans are doing this!

[sixmile]

8. Right. No one would give up their chair to a 91-year-old?

This story has more holes than Swiss cheese.
An ADA lawyer would be all over this if true.