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TexasTowelie

(112,719 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:31 PM Jun 2015

This 101-Year-Old Woman Couldn’t Vote After Texas Saved Democracy From ‘Voter Fraud’

Mary Lou Miller was just seven years old when the 19th amendment became the law of the land. In 1934, at the age of 21, Mary Lou began a legendary streak of casting ballots that lasted nearly 80 years. Nothing could stop Mary Lou from being a part of the American democratic process.

Until Texas, in their desperate attempt to remove as many disadvantaged voters as possible from the rolls, enacted their strict new voter ID law. Now this woman, who lived through the Great Depression and two World Wars, who witnessed more history in her lifetime than many will read about, was no longer able to vote.

Mary wasn’t just an avid voter, she was an active part of the voting process. She had “registered voters, taken voters to the polls, conducted voter education programs, and worked to ensure that all have the right to vote and have their vote counted.”

Mary Lou wrote an article for My San Antonio.com that tells the heartbreaking story of how her vote wouldn’t count as San Antonio elected its first ever black mayor:

I applied for a ballot by mail, at age 101, my favorite manner of voting nowadays. But a while after applying for my mail ballot, I moved from one assisted living facility to another, not knowing that the Post Office does not forward mail ballots.

With no mail ballot, I attempted to vote early in person. I do not possess a government-issued photo ID, and I have had none issued since I stopped driving when I was in my early 80s, over 20 years ago. One of the benefits of mail ballot is that a voter is not required to provide such a document.

But on Monday of this week, I was driven to a Texas Department of Public Safety office where I wanted to obtain a “Proof of Identity.” I did not have a Texas Driver’s License issued within two years of expiration. No Passport. No unexpired U.S. military photo ID. Nor did I have an “advance parole document with photo.” Sorry, but I never did time in the penitentiary, so I don’t have that document. Had I had just one of these documents, I could obtain my “Proof of Identity” and be somebody.

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This 101-Year-Old Woman Couldn’t Vote After Texas Saved Democracy From ‘Voter Fraud’ (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2015 OP

Fvckin Fascists blm Jun 2015 #1

The Texas voter id law serves one function which is to steal the right to vote Gothmog Jun 2015 #2

And Bruce Fleming a republican running for commissioner in Fort Bend County voted in Texas and Thinkingabout Jun 2015 #3

Is a court case pending against the removal of her right to vote by the Supreme Court? DhhD Jun 2015 #4

blm

(113,139 posts)

1. Fvckin Fascists

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:37 PM

Jun 2015

Gothmog

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2. The Texas voter id law serves one function which is to steal the right to vote

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Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:41 PM

Jun 2015

Thinkingabout

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3. And Bruce Fleming a republican running for commissioner in Fort Bend County voted in Texas and

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 09:50 PM

Jun 2015

Pennsylvania in the same election. He claimed he owned a home in both states and thought this qualified him and his wife to vote in both states. Yep, Republican voter fraud plain and simple.

DhhD

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4. Is a court case pending against the removal of her right to vote by the Supreme Court?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 11:53 AM

Jun 2015

What gives them the right to delay the Constitution and Bill of Rights to say that she cannot vote in the Nov 2014 election but she can in coming elections in Texas?

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