Posted on 12/15/2011 2:55:04 AM PST by bjorn14
The biggest opponent of the state's new voter ID law just may be an 84-year-old woman who stands less than 5 feet tall, has lived in the same house nearly her entire life and has served on her Village Board since 1996.
Ruthelle Frank doesn't have a driver's license, doesn't have a birth certificate and hasn't been able to get a state identification card, which means that she could be out of luck the next time she tries to vote.
"The whole thing upsets me," Frank said Wednesday. "You could live in the U.S. of A., live in the same house all these years and you don't have the right to vote."
Frank is a plaintiff in the lawsuit filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union against the state over the new law that requires voters to show government-issued photo identification.
The ACLU argues that the measure violates the U.S. Constitution. Republican lawmakers and Gov. Scott Walker have expressed confidence the law will stand up to court challenge.
Frank takes the right to vote very seriously.
She said she started voting in 1948 and has rarely missed a chance to cast a ballot since.
For years, Frank said, she didn't even have to say her name to get a ballot.
"Everybody knows everybody around here," she said.
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What a train car load of crapola!
She doesn’t have a birth certificate? How do we know she is a citizen of the U.S.A.?
Ahhhhh I saw this story on the democrats facebook site. I suggested if they were really worried they could help this lil ol lady get an ID card rather then whine about it over the internet.
Boo frickin hoo
Yeah, Ruthelle I take the right to very seriously too. I don’t want my vote invalidated because of someone voting illegally. Now get off your lazy arse and get some ID.
A fine public servant you are wasting all this taxpayer money because you won’t get an ID!
My mom is 89; never had a drivers license and has a picture ID. They are not trying very hard.
Instead of whining about voting maybe she should have spent some of that 84 years getting a birth certificate and some ID. Problem solved............
My Mom who was a Naturalized Citizen (from Canada) and never drove in her life, was able to obtain a State Photo ID here in VT (not to vote but for other required transactions such as cashing checks, etc.) FREE OF CHARGE, due to her age (she was, I think about 65 or so when she got it) and income level.
I don't know of any State that does not have similar provisions, thus the faux argument that this places an undue "burden" on the poor is pure hyperbole and disingenuous, at best.
The ONLY people this would affect are ILLEGALS (or ACORN members) so what does that say about the opposition to this common sense proposal?
LAST BUT NOT LEAST, voting (as evidenced by the many "restrictions" such as age, criminal convictions, residency, etc. imposed by states) is a "PRIVLEGE," not a "RIGHT!"
She doesn’t possess one.
Ruthelle has probably been casting 10-20 Democratic votes in every election for the past 65 years.
The voter fraud gang is certainly lying here. The state would give her an ID for free.
Their argument: It’s better to let 100 welfarees vote multiple times than to deny one old person with insufficient faculties to operate a motor vehicle their vote.
My answer: too bad.
If you cannot prove that you were born in the United States, or that you parents were born in the United States, then you are not a U.S. citizen and therefore cannot vote, period.
Oh she can prove if she orders a copy of her birth certificate. But she is claiming the $20 fee is a poll tax....
The government can’t require you to get an ID. But has no problem requiring you to buy Obamacare!
You do have the right to vote, dummy, go get an ID.
so we are to believe this woman owns a house, probably has a checking account, credit card, and has never been asked to identify herself legally for any of this stuff? Never?
It seems odd to me that all the posters on this thread are the same ones who complain about ‘big government’ intruding in their lives. Since when do you have to ‘prove’ your citizenship in this ountry?
“When a place becomes so crowded id’s are required, social collapse is not far off. It is time to go elsewhere.” -Robert A. Heinlein.
Only problem, there is nowhere else to go.
So ONE person out of 300 million is to cause a law that prevents hundreds of thousands of fraudulent votes...
Yeah, that makes sense!
It said birth certificate, not ID.
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