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Consider the case of Theresa Clemente, a 78-year-old registered Indiana voter who has no driver's license. An amicus brief detailed her story. When she heard about Indiana's new law, she attempted to get a qualifying photo ID. She went to the state Bureau of Motor Vehicles with her Social Security card, utility bill, property tax bill, credit card and voter registration card. Not good enough. She needed her birth certificate. She returned with it, only to be told that it was not a "certified copy." So she mailed an application to Massachusetts, where she was born (cost: $28). She returned to the BMV, only to be told that her birth certificate had her maiden name, not her married name. She had to get a certified copy of her marriage certificate and return a fourth time.

I absolutely refuse to believe that a woman lived to the ripe old age of 78 in this country, and had not obtained a photo ID yet. Right or wrong, you can’t even fart in this country without a Photo ID.

If there’s one, and only one, reason for the government to demand a verifiable photo identification, it would be to exercise your right to select who’s going to run the government.

[Boonie]

” She returned to the BMV, only to be told that her birth certificate had her maiden name, not her married name.”

I believe this writer to be a liar and a fabricator of the first order...

How in h*ll do you get your “married” name on your BIRTH certificate?????? You have an “arranged” marriage from birth???*ROFLMAO*

[MEGoody]

I absolutely refuse to believe that a woman lived to the ripe old age of 78 in this country, and had not obtained a photo ID yet.

It's possible, but it would be the rare person who could (would) do it. I guess if they want to vote bad enough, they'll get a photo ID. (For example, why didn't this woman call first to see what would be required to get the photo ID?)

This editorial tries to claim these problems would be widespread, and that's just a fantasy.

[CSM]

It looks to me like Ms. Clemente was the victim of the DMV and its inefficiencies. I’d be willing to bet that she has a burning desire for the health care system to be run as efficiantly.

[count-your-change]

This story is bogus. An original birth cert. is not a certified copy nor need it be. If a copy is used it would be from the state and would be certified.
Birth certificate wouldn't have her married name on it unless she was married at birth, highly unlikely.
A simple phone call to the branch would tell what documents were needed so this ‘returned again and again’ is nonsense too.
$28 for a copy of her birth cert.? Blame Mass. though everyone should have a copy, a certified copy.
To this story I apply my tagline.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

...She returned to the BMV, only to be told that her birth certificate had her maiden name, not her married name. She had to get a certified copy of her marriage certificate and return a fourth time....

Believe it. A friend of mine who is blind, wanted to get a non-driver photo id, in 2002 or 2003, I don't remember exactly. She couldn't open a checking account, never mind vote, in the state she had moved to.

The MV told her to bring 2 forms of id, soc sec card and birth cert.

They didn't match. Her parents had never put her name on her bc, which just referred to her as Baby [Surname].

It took a year and several expensive trips across America to get Vital Statistics to accept the change, and only then would MV grant her application for an id.

You want id from the MV, better not go there with any unusual circumstances. They do not think, they just follow their rules.

Not that there's anything wrong with that! :)

[Gaffer]

Betcha she was told in advance what the supporting documents had to be and whether certified or not. Her process was planned from the start by lawyers itching to build a case.