Posted on 10/27/2014 3:17:15 PM PDT by MNDude
Ever since he turned 18 he has made a point of voting in general elections, having been brought up by his African American parents to think that it is important, part of what he calls “doing the right thing”. He remembers the excitement of voting for Barack Obama in 2008 to help elect the country’s first black president, his grandmother crying tears of joy on election night. “My grandfather and uncle, they used to tell me all the time there will be a black president. I never believed it, never in a million years.”
He voted again for Obama in his re-election bid in 2012, and turned out for the 2010 midterm elections in between. But this year is different. Kennie is one of an estimated 600,000 Texans who, though registered to vote, will be unable to do so because they cannot meet photo-identification requirements set out in the state’s new voter-ID law, SB14 .
But last week, in the early hours of 18 October, when most Texans were sleeping, the US supreme court snuck out a one-line judgmentthat allowed the voter-ID restrictions to be applied this election cycle. Without any explanation, a majority of the justices effectively threw Eric Kennie and many thousands of others like him – particularly black, Hispanic and low-income Texans – into a state of democratic limbo.
“This is the first time the courts have allowed a law that actually keeps people from voting to go into effect, even though a judge found it was passed for the purpose of making it harder for minorities to vote,” said Wendy Weiser, head of the democracy programme at the Brennan Centre for Justice.
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It really annoys me though when I'm at a store buying spray paint or on a rare occasion a bottle of wine and they want to make sure I'm of age. I'm 57 for crying out loud. Stores give me the senior discount without asking my age LOL.
Woder if he has any kind of assistance.
I suspect he’s living off the grid so to speak. He may get a few things that goodwill/churches/ etc
distribute. He at least digs around for some subsistance rather than these panhandlers standing
at the intersections soliticing money.
He did, but he let it expire. What I don’t understand is why he doesn’t just vote under his birth certificate name?
I take it those are rhetorical questions?
You know the answer.
When I went to DMV for a name change, they only needed my marriage certificate. SS just needs my state ID with my new name. Just had to do it in the right order.
Are the 600,000 “mail-in votes” collected by Democrats getting rigorous review of their ID’s??
Oh, and when my son got his license, he needed his birth certificate, not his SS card.
Truly!
Thanks for reminding me. I am going to go vote tomorrow.
Kenny, and the other Texans in his situation (and yes, if the media looks hard enough, they can find those 3 Texans), should have called the DEMOCRAT PARTY, the same party that has spent MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to fight our Voter ID law. They certainly could have found someone to give him a ride and pay the $23, assuming that really would be the case for him.
It’s MORE THAN CLEAR in this article that Kenny can obtain the ID he needs, and he BETTER GET IT, if he wants his Obamacare when he gets Tetnus from messing with those pieces of scrap metal.
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