ACLU, George Takei, etc.
Also a member of Young Democrats of America when he lived in Seattle.
Below, he's shown with his voter registration papers outside his new digs in Overland Park, KS.
yes...I've posted it twice; I changed a couple of things.
Posted on 08/15/2013 1:15:07 PM PDT by Twotone
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A few weeks after moving to suburban Kansas City from the Seattle area, Aaron Belenky went online to register to vote. But he ended up joining thousands of other Kansas residents whose voting rights are in legal limbo because of the state's new proof-of-citizenship rule.
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It tells me that 15,000 people are trying to vote illegally.
Or, in this guy’s situation, maybe vote in two places.
ACLU, George Takei, etc.
Also a member of Young Democrats of America when he lived in Seattle.
Below, he's shown with his voter registration papers outside his new digs in Overland Park, KS.
yes...I've posted it twice; I changed a couple of things.
Birth certificate, top drawer. Passport, top drawer. Backup ID - top drawer. What is this dude’s malfunction?
They ask for id for beer, what is the problem?
Any state participating in the Real ID Act requires ALL persons seeking a drivers license or state ID to provide proof of birth in a embossed format. This is required in plenty of states. It is not as if the ‘poor’ chap couldn’t get another set of documents he in fact can. All he has to do is contact his state of birth and pay the appropriate fee.
Thank you, George W. Bush, a Republican Congress and the Patriot Act.
"All". All? Try getting anything out of your federal, state, county or city governments.
I moved recently to Georgia. Georgia requires the same type of proof. PLUS I had to have a marriage certificate (embossed) as well (from an entirely different state).
It took my all of three days (total complete) to get both documents. Apparently you haven’t ever tried. Again I say ALL he had to do was contact the state and county he was born in and pay a fee. END OF STORY. The man is lazy and has no desire to prove that he is a citizen and THEREFORE has the right to vote.
I do NOT want NON citizens voting. It is bad enough that non-registered voters can vote and register on the same day and that voting has been extending out for weeks on end. Voting used to be at a particular time and place on a given day. Either you are to young to remember that or you just don’t care about the integrity of the vote
I had to prove my citizenship to my Godfather in order to open up a checking account.
That's B.S. and I resent it.
He’s liable to not like Kansas as much as he thought. Might want to move over to the east side of State Line.
I lived in KC for more than two decades, so I can chuckle with you on that.
Both my kids graduated from Shawnee Mission high schools in the 1980’s. Just a great place to raise a family. Leawood does tend to be more than a little left wing and snooty though. Friday night was baseball or football and Saturday night was always off to the demolition derby and funny car races with friends at Riverside which we watched from the back end of our pick-up while drinking beer. Life was good!
What always amazed me was that everyone was convinced that if you lived in Johnson County you obviously had big bucks. Looking back on those days now, I would have to say we were but it certainly had nothing to do with money, just quality of life.
that may be but if you live in a real ID state you will have to prove your citizenship to get a driver’s license
Unless he is naturalized, and was born in a foreign country. As I was. Arrived in San Francisco when I was eight.
In a baffling twist, I was naturalized as soon as I was able, when I was 18 and still have my Original naturalization certificate. When I tried to apply for Social Security 58 years later, that certificate was not sufficient to establish my identity.
The bureaucracy insisted on an original (embossed) Birth Certificate, which was destroyed in a fire when I was 20. The Records office in my country of origin was destroyed by earthquake and fire and the records were destroyed. But in the meantime, I had had a U.S. passport for almost 40 years, but that, too, was insufficient.
Bottom line, it took three years to get a document, and it took a trip by a relative who had connections to be able to get the required documentation.
This all happened, of course, long before I could get an illegal to walk me through the "other" way to get things done.
Don’t know about social security but for the driver’s license the passport and naturalization papers would have been enough
If you never ask for a driver license, you don't need one.
Wars were fought over the right to peaceably travel in or on contemporary conveyances without interference by government revenue agents.
Go ahead and fight your war.
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