HOUSTON — In his wallet, Anthony Settles carries an expired Texas identification card, his Social Security card and an old student ID from the University of Houston, where he studied math and physics decades ago. What he does not have is the one thing that he needs to vote this presidential election: a current Texas photo ID. For Settles to get one of those, his name has to match his birth certificate — and it doesn’t. 在 1964, 当他 14, his mother married and changed his last name. After Texas passed a new voter-ID law, officials told Settles he had to show them his name-change certificate from 1964 to qualify for a new identification card to vote.
So with the help of several lawyers, Settles tried to find it, searching records in courthouses in the D.C. 区域, where he grew up. But they could not find it. To obtain a new document changing his name to the one he has used for 51 年, Settles has to go to court, a process that would cost him more than $250 — more than he is willing to pay.
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五月 26, 2016 在 6:06 关于
Reminds me off an epidemic thats going on no one pays attention to which is young black men in losangeles not being able to obtain a valid Californian drivers license its like a set up for failure I wish I had a platform to voice what’s really up out here in these streets I feel like all these so called educated and politically correct black people don’t have a clue of what’s going on in these streets and why we killing eachother why we gangbang and referring to the real problems talk about voting ain’t none of ma Lil honors concerned about that all we know is we ready to duck some shut up Donald Trump win but as far as actually voting were not interested its likew wen Obama got in office our moms made us vote couse they knew why but now moms don’t even no why or what or who they voting for so we sent care about that questions like how do I be apart of black lives matter I ain’t never heard bout that in ma hood they ain’t never came tthfathdo