In 2004, Arizona passed one of the nation's strictest voter ID laws,
requiring proof of citizen****p to vote. Now a 97 year old woman who
recently moved to the Phoenix area finds she is no longer eligible to
cast a ballot.
"It's my constitutional right to be able to vote," insists ****rley
Preiss. Decked out in a US flag hat and ****rt, Preiss told News 5,
"I'm a legal American. I'm born here."
According to Art Levine at the Huffington Post, "She was born at home
in Clinton, Kentucky in 1910, before women had the right to vote, and
never had a birth certificate. ****rley has voted in every presidential
election since FDR first ran in 1932, and proudly describes herself as
a 'died-in-the-wool Democrat.' After living in Arizona for two years,
she was eagerly looking forward to casting her ballot in the February
primary for the first major woman candidate for President, Hillary
Clinton. But lacking a birth certificate or even elementary school
records to prove she's a native-born American citizen, the state of
Arizona's bureaucrats determined that this former school-teacher who
taught generations of Americans shouldn't be allowed to vote."
Preiss's son, Nathan "Joey" Nemnich, tried to get her an Arizona ID on
the basis of her three Texas driver's licenses and her Social Security
and Medicare cards, but was rejected. Now the 78-year-old veteran
says, "I'm pissed. She's an American citizen who worked her whole life
and I want her to vote. ... The sons of *****es are taking away our
Constitution."
Linda Brown of the Arizona Advocacy Network asks, "How many hurdles
should there be to jump through? How many barriers are we going to
accept?" The group says that almost 40,000 registration forms have
been rejected by the state since the Arizona law went into effect.
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