01-09-2008, 11:45 AM
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From Indiana:
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on Election Day last November, Valerie Williams became that evidence, according to lawyers in a case that will be argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday. After Ms. Williams grabbed her cane that day and walked into the polling station in the lobby of her retirement home to vote, as she has done in at least the last two elections, she was barred from doing so.
The election officials at the polling place, whom she had known for years, told her she could not cast a regular ballot. They said the forms of identification she had always used — a telephone bill, a Social Security letter with her address on it and an expired Indiana driver’s license — were no longer valid under the voter ID law, which required a current state-issued photo identification card.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/us...us&oref=slogin
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From Georgia:
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After 40 years of voting in American elections, 61-year-old Dean Shirley of Decatur, Ga., could be denied the right to cast his ballot because he doesn't have a photo ID.
"I'm registered, and they have the registration book right in front of them at the polls," he says. "Who else is going to come in and say they're Edward Dean Shirley?
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AARP's Georgia office, for example, found that more than 150,000 older Georgians who voted in the last election—when 17 forms of identification were acceptable—do not have driver's licenses and are unlikely to have other forms of government-issued photo IDs.
Dean Shirley, a former Georgia cotton mill worker, is disabled because of lung disease and arthritis. He no longer drives and says he doesn't have a passport because he's only been out of the country once, when he was in the service.
But Shirley wants to continue to vote, so he asked a relative to take him to a motor vehicle office to get a nondriver's photo ID. They drove 45 minutes and waited in line nearly three hours to pay $20 for an ID (note to Shani: the fee must have been waived since this article in 2005). His number was skipped, and he left empty-handed. "I just don't see the right in that," he says.
Responding to complaints about the accessibility of photo IDs, Perdue announced the state would send a bus on the road to issue them. But a state official conceded that the hand-me-down bus would stick close to Atlanta because it might break down. Unimpressed, critics charged the bus was nothing more than a public relations gimmick.
http://www.aarp.org/bulletin/yourlife/voter_id.html
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