Alabama

DhhD

(4,695 posts) Wed Jun 4, 2014, 07:51 PM Jun 2014

93 Year-Old Is Turned Away From Voting Due to New Voter ID Laws in Alabama.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/03/1304147/-Thanks-to-new-voter-ID-law-93-year-old-voter-turned-away-in-Alabama?detail=email#

Willie Mims, 93, showed up to vote at his polling place in Escambia County Tuesday morning for Alabama’s primary elections. Mims, who is African-American, no longer drives, doesn’t have a license, and has no other form of ID. As a result, he was turned away without voting. Mims wasn’t even offered the chance to cast a provisional ballot, as the law requires in that situation.
Jenny McCharen of Empower Alabama, a progressive group that gave Mims a ride to the polls, recounted the story for msnbc. McCharen said Mims’s voter file showed he has voted in every election since 2000, as far back as the records go.

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93 Year-Old Is Turned Away From Voting Due to New Voter ID Laws in Alabama. (Original Post) DhhD Jun 2014 OP

See! The system works? tech3149 Jun 2014 #1

In Alabama... yallerdawg Jun 2014 #2

The South Shall Rise Again. One way or another... blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #3

The CULTURE of the south needs to be eradicated FiveGoodMen Jun 2014 #5

The only purpose of this law is to suppress the vote Gothmog Jun 2014 #4

tech3149

(4,452 posts)

1. See! The system works?

Reply to DhhD (Original post)

Wed Jun 4, 2014, 08:34 PM

Jun 2014

It's just a question of for whom.

yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)

2. In Alabama...

Reply to DhhD (Original post)

Wed Jun 4, 2014, 08:35 PM

Jun 2014

it's not just to suppress Democratic votes.

It's to go back in time to the good old days when 'those people' weren't allowed to vote.

Can you imagine how Willie Mims felt to be turned away? What history this man has lived through?

Can you imagine how the people felt who turned him away? Who didn't want him to vote?

It is sickening.

Willie Mims is on Chris Hayes right as I am posting this.