{"id":8975,"date":"2011-12-05T16:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8975"},"modified":"2011-12-06T03:20:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T11:20:00","slug":"84-year-old-wi-woman-may-need-to-pay-200-to-cast-legal-vote-under-gop-voter-suppression-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/?p=8975","title":{"rendered":"84-Year Old WI Woman May Need to Pay $200 to Cast Legal Vote Under GOP Voter Suppression Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Via Tanya Somanader at ThinkProgress…<\/a><\/p>\n

For 63 years, Brokaw, Wisconsin native Ruthelle Frank went to the polls to vote. Though paralyzed on her left side since birth, the 84-year-old \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fiery woman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d voted in every election since 1948 and even got elected herself as a member of the Brokaw Village Board. But because of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new voter ID law, 2012 will be the first year Frank can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t vote. Born after a difficult birth at her home in 1927, Frank never received an official birth certificate. Her mother recorded it in her family Bible and Frank has a certification of baptism from a few months later, along with a Social Security card, a Medicare statement, and a checkbook. But without the official document, she can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t secure the state ID card that the new law requires to vote next year. <\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really crazy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she added. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got all this proof. You mean to tell me that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a U.S. citizen?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But state officials have informed Frank that, because the state Register of Deeds does have a record of her birth, they can issue her a new birth certificate \u00e2\u20ac\u201d for a fee. And because of a spelling error, that fee may be as high as $200<\/p><\/div>\n

Add Frank’s to the stories of 96-year old Dorothy Cooper in TN<\/a> who has voted in every election since woman were granted the right to vote, but who no longer may be able to cast her vote on Election Day next year, and 86-year old WWII veteran Darwin Sparks<\/a> in the same state; along with hundreds of thousands of others who are likely to find themselves unable to cast their legal vote on Election Day next year thanks to new voter suppression laws implemented in about a dozen states by GOP legislatures and governor’s since they took control in 2010.<\/p>\n

In Wisconsin, where<\/a> “an estimated 177,399 Wisconsin residents 65 and older do not have a driver\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s license or state photo ID \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 23 percent of that population,” and where Frank may have to pay as much as $200 to cast her legal vote under the GOP’s new anti-democratic and anti-Democratic polling place Photo ID restrictions, the non-partisan League of Women Voters has filed suit charging the law is in violation of the state’s constitution, as The BRAD BLOG detailed in October<\/a>. That case is still pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Via Tanya Somanader at ThinkProgress… For 63 years, Brokaw, Wisconsin native Ruthelle Frank went to the polls to vote. Though paralyzed on her left side since birth, the 84-year-old \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fiery woman\u00e2\u20ac\u009d voted in every election since 1948 and even got elected herself as a member of the Brokaw Village Board. But because of the state\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2012"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbnewdb.webbyspice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}