Vote like your Rights Depend on it - They do!

We take a break from the Campaign Tip of the Day series to bring you something from the "You can't make this stuff up" department.

90 year old former House Speaker Jim Wright was told "No vote for you!" because, even though he had voted in every election since 1944, he was turned away for a Texas ID card, which is now required by draconian voters suppression laws in that state. Why? His driver's license had expired in 2010 and he failed to bring a birth certificate to the agency issuing IDs.

If this can happen to someone with credentials like Wright's, think of all the people lacking sufficient proof of their existence, like elders in nursing homes and people whose births may have been unrecorded due to being born at home, our of wedlock, in poverty, or those who lack the wherewithal to procure the necessary paperwork.

Wright plans to return with the necessary documentation in time to vote in the upcoming election. Not everyone is so savvy or so lucky. Bad portent for the future.

Read the article here.