What it is like to register to vote in states with voter suppression law / Boing Boing
Leroy Switlick, a 67-yr-outdated visually impaired man who has voted in every election for the final forty many years may possibly not get to vote this year, because he lives in Wisconsin, in which Republican governor Scott Watson passed a voter-suppression law that demands individuals like Switkick, who've never traveled and in no way held a driver's license, to present photo ID (like a passport or driver's license) to vote, and the DMV has failed in its duty to problem him a non-driver ID.
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Switlick has produced three trips to the DMV, and has not even had the possibility to present his tremendous bag of documentation (birth certificate, and so on) to a clerk. The initial time, he was turned away for not having photograph ID ("Now if I am coming to get a photo ID, how can I already have a photograph ID?" wink the 2nd time, the individual he was supposed to meet just did not present up for their http://www.ranktopfast.com
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