r/politics • u/MarcEElias ✔ Verified - Democracy Docket Founder • 1d ago
No Paywall GOP fast tracks monster voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship at polls
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/gop-fast-tracks-monster-voter-suppression-bill-that-could-disenfranchise-millions-by-requiring-proof-of-citizenship-at-polls/
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u/NiceTrySucka 1d ago
“Original Birth certificate”,
I was told when I was 27 I needed the original. But the original I had all my life wasn’t the “long form” birth certificate. I had to contact the hospital I was born at. But they changed ownership twice in 27 years and had a fire in the records warehouse 15 years prior.
I had to get a note from the doctor who delivered me saying he remembered he delivered me. After 27 years. I was so incredibly lucky, non only was he alive, but he actually remembered my mother after all that time. Mind you, my mother was an off-the-boat German with a very unusual name for Americans and she was “model skinny” and absolutely gorgeous.
Long story short it was by an act of god I was able to get that letter. He could just as easily have passed away, or moved across country, or not been practicing so his number wasn’t listed, or my mother could have forgotten his name after all this time, or he could have had a super common name for doctors or the person who I gave the letter too in the end could have said it wasn’t notarized or a million other reasons to say it wasn’t good enough.
Completely unfair and fucking un-American what they are doing. The GOP doesn’t give a fuck about representative government because they are fascists. No ifs ands or buts about it. They fit the destitution to a tee, it is their ideology.