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Second world war veteran twice denied absentee ballot under Texas voting law
The Guardian ^ | Jan 29, 2022 | Gloria Oladipo

Posted on 01/29/2022 4:01:15 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?

A 95-year-old second world war veteran twice denied an absentee ballot under a restrictive Texas voting law has attracted support from prominent figures including Beto O’Rourke, a voting rights campaigner and former presidential candidate now running for Texas governor.

Kenneth Thompson, who served in the US army in Europe, told Click2Houston, a Harris county news outlet, he had voted in every election since he was 21 and even remembered paying a 50-cent poll tax in the 1950s.

“I’ve been voting many, many years and I’ve never missed a vote,” he said, adding that he considers voting a duty.

But under a voting restriction bill known as SB1 and passed last August, Thompson could be unable to meet the state’s 31 January voter registration deadline for an absentee ballot.

According to the new law, Thompson is required to submit a social security or driver’s license number that matches state or county records. When Thompson registered to vote decades ago, however, such requirements were not in place.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ssn; texas; voting; votinglaws
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"Thompson is required to submit a social security"

I would hope a vet is smart enough to provide a correct SSN, making this article garbage (expected coming from the Guardian)

1 posted on 01/29/2022 4:01:15 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

His quote at the end of the propaganda release was that he is perfectly able to go vote in person.

He can also submit a new registration with his SSN to enable absentee voting.

They are blowing up a technicality that prevents admin staff from manually editing a very old (1940’s) registration.

Typical lefty BS lies.


2 posted on 01/29/2022 4:08:28 PM PST by monkeypants (It's a Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: monkeypants

Texas has an alternate retirement system for Galveston residents. Is Galveston’s numbering system the “technicality” the veteran is unable to provide?


3 posted on 01/29/2022 4:15:16 PM PST by Does so (Americans had no desire for war between 1939 and 1941. Rheinland? Sometimes...War Finds YOU!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

There is the option of going to his doctor and having him or her sign an affidavit of identity. Unless texas doesn’t allow that now


4 posted on 01/29/2022 4:18:03 PM PST by chemical_boy
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Why does he need an absentee ballot?? Seems a logical question since he wouldn’t be in a position to need one at his age.


5 posted on 01/29/2022 4:20:07 PM PST by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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Wouldn’t a person’s first thought be, “He’s 95 and DOESN’T HAVE A SSN?” And if he has one, why in the heck is he refusing to admit it?!

Don’t care if he’s a vet. He’s a phony bastard pushing policies to create fraud!


6 posted on 01/29/2022 4:20:37 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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I know of one old guy who has never had a SSN.


7 posted on 01/29/2022 4:33:40 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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Don’t care if he’s a vet. He’s a phony bastard pushing policies to create fraud!

Agree.

8 posted on 01/29/2022 4:36:29 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF ATCer, Retired. Father of USAF pilot. ATCers & pilots, the quintessential elements of aviation)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I know of one old guy who has never had a SSN.

Contrast that with Obama who has had several. Maybe he can lend one of his extras to this old guy.

9 posted on 01/29/2022 4:40:26 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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Thompson could be unable to meet the state’s 31 January voter registration deadline for an absentee ballot.

And he could die before the January 31 deadline. But not to worry, dead people vote democrat all the time.

10 posted on 01/29/2022 4:42:48 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The whole article is B.S. He can easily vote if he wants to. The easiest way is simply to provide his ssn.


11 posted on 01/29/2022 4:51:31 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

This is utter BS. He just woke up and discovered he needed a social security number?


12 posted on 01/29/2022 4:58:39 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I know of people who deliberately get “hit” by cars so they can sue.


13 posted on 01/29/2022 5:00:16 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: Mr Rogers; Mark17

My impression as well.


14 posted on 01/29/2022 5:16:05 PM PST by rlmorel (Nothing can foster principles of freedom more effectively than the imposition of tyranny.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

“I know of one old guy who has never had a SSN.”

If you lived your life not sucking from the government teat, you don’t need an SSN.


15 posted on 01/29/2022 5:25:09 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

learn to read instructions.

end of story.


16 posted on 01/29/2022 5:58:29 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Renfrew

no.. you misunderstood, he has a SS # and a DL, but hadn’t been including them in his application because he hadn’t had to in the past.

In other words, he is NOT reading the new instructions, and his application is being denied.


17 posted on 01/29/2022 6:00:03 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Eleutheria5
He just woke up and discovered he needed a social security number?

If he really does not have a social security number how did he ever work, or file his taxes, or get medical care?

It really doesn't sound plausible that someone born in 1927 didn't get a social security number somewhere along the way. In 1936 it became mandatory for any working person to have a social security number.

Has the guy been working illegally his entire life?

18 posted on 01/29/2022 6:02:35 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: CodeToad
The voter himself admits that he doesn't need to vote absentee:

"Thompson said he now checked his mailbox every day, hoping his absentee ballot had arrived. If it did not, he said, he would vote in person."

“I can get out and move around and go to a regular polling place,” he said, “but … lots of people just can’t.”

Sounds like more fake leftist BS.

19 posted on 01/29/2022 6:05:58 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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To: freeandfreezing

Tax ID Number works instead of SSN for some purposes. That’s what some illegals use.


20 posted on 01/29/2022 6:06:56 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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