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The indomitable Augustine Carter


Voting Rights 2013: Augustine Carter d.o.b. 1/6/28 by Eric Byler and Annabel Park for Story of America, featuring one of the heroines of 22nd Street:

Augustine Carter, an 85-year-old voter in Richmond, Virginia, tells her story of the trouble she went through to vote in 2012. Born in 1928, she never had a birth certificate and she never got a driver’s license because she decided years ago that driving wasn’t for her. Her baptism certificate was sufficient for all identification purposes until the 2012 election. She had to go through a Kafka-esque bureaucracy including being told by someone at the Motor Vehicle Administration that she couldn’t prove that she was not a terrorist.

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human honey badger 02/06/2013 at 9:34 AM

For years laws have required everyone to have state issued ID cards. Sorry she has slipped by so far, but ….

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Tyrell 02/06/2013 at 9:44 AM

Have they? I’ve never once been asked to show ID to vote over the last 2 decades.

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Ray 02/06/2013 at 10:49 AM

Tyrell is right.

I’ve NEVER had to show an ID to vote.

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P.Mayo 02/06/2013 at 11:01 AM

I believe she states that she had a state issued ID. The problem started when she went to have it renewed.

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