{"id":11559,"date":"2018-11-02T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=11559"},"modified":"2018-11-02T09:53:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T15:53:47","slug":"voter-disenfranchisement-not-in-this-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2018\/11\/voter-disenfranchisement-not-in-this-case.html","title":{"rendered":"Voter disenfranchisement? Not in this case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Here\u2019s an article I\u2019m going to share with you because I saw it on twitter and it\u2019s just sooo silly:\u00a0 \u201cWhat It Feels Like to Be Disenfranchised by a Voter ID Law; I had a birth certificate, a photo ID, and utility bills proving my residency. But Tennessee decided that wasn\u2019t good enough.<\/a>\u201d This is one of a series of articles in Vice<\/em> that take the form of first-person accounts of Why I Didn\u2019t Vote.<\/p>\n

The story is this:\u00a0 the author was a student at Vanderbilt University.\u00a0 He registered to vote online, but was prevented from voting because Tennessee required a Tennessee driver\u2019s license (or state ID), and he had planned to use his Georgia driver\u2019s license.\u00a0 Why didn\u2019t he change his license?\u00a0 Here\u2019s his explanation:<\/p>\n

My wife and I were the a strange situation of being young and married, but still somewhat financially dependent on our parents. Our vehicles were registered in our parents\u2019 names, and we had Georgia driver\u2019s licenses. Registering the vehicles in Tennessee would have incurred a pretty significant tax burden, and getting a Tennessee driver\u2019s license, we were led to believe by our insurance agents, would be a problem for us to since then we\u2019d be listed as drivers on our parents\u2019 cars without Georgia licenses. So we were in this space where we feared losing our transportation or having to incur a significant financial burden if we tried to get Tennessee driver\u2019s licenses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But he misses the fact that he was eligible for, and could have requested, a Georgia absentee ballot.\u00a0 A twitter user identified the relevant section of the Georgia code, \u201crules for determining residence<\/a>,\u201d thinking it was a slam dunk that the author was being treated unjustly \u2014 but it actually pretty nicely clarified that \u201ctemporary\u201d absence (such as attending a university elsewhere) doesn\u2019t prevent one from continuing to vote as a Georgia resident.\u00a0 If, on the other hand, this individual was living in Tennessee year-round, and had no real intention to return to Georgia except for family visits, then those cars needed to have their registration changed to Tennessee, and they were defrauding the state by trying to avoid paying Tennessee taxes (and possibly defrauding the insurance company as well if their rates were based on Georgia residence).<\/p>\n

So, like the stories of young adults failing to vote because they didn\u2019t know where to buy stamps<\/a>, it\u2019s not a good look.<\/p>\n

And, yes, I know that there are other reports of polling places being closed in ways that make it more difficult for carless folk to make it to the polls, and ongoing controversies about voter ID, and I\u2019ve always been of the opinion that it\u2019s perfectly appropriate for states to require picture ID but that those states should be required to make it as easy as possible for residents to obtain those identification cards, even to the point of providing transportation for rural folk or coming out to small towns as needed.<\/p>\n

Image: \u00a0https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:California_Drivers_License.jpg; By dmv.ca.gov (dmv.ca.gov) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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