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86-Year-Old U.S. Veteran Paul Carroll Denied Right to Vote
Paul Carroll, a 86-year-old World War II veteran, was denied his right to vote in Ohio's primary contest today after a poll worker refused to accept Carroll's photo ID from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The poll worker rejected the ID because it did not contain a home address, as required by an Ohio law that was passed by Republicans to combat alleged "voter fraud."
Portage Elections Board Director Faith Lyon said the law requires an address on even a veteran’s identification card.
Carroll told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he got the ID from the VA after his driver’s license expired because he doesn’t drive anymore:
“My beef is that I had to pay a driver to take me up there because I don’t walk so well and have to use this cane and now I can’t even vote,” said Paul Carroll, 86, who has lived in Aurora nearly 40 years, running his own business, Carroll Tire, until 1975.
“I had to stop driving, but I got the photo ID from the Veterans Affairs instead, just a month or so ago. You would think that would count for something. I went to war for this country, but now I can’t vote in this country.”
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Comments
Republicans want to prevent
Republicans want to prevent voter fraud and I agree. Democrats want to allow illegals to vote and I so DISAGREE. A veteran who has lived in the state for over 40 years AND owned a business is not allowed to vote because the VA didn't put an address on his ID. GET REAL! At least you know they are LEGAL AMERICAN CITIZENS!
Do you have evidence of
Do you have evidence of illegals voting? I don't know about Ohio but here in Minnesota it's estimated that the voter ID law the Republicans are pushing would make it more difficult, or impossible, for about 250,000 people to vote. Contrast that with less than 10 cases of voter fraud documented in the last decade and none of those would be prevented by a voter ID law.
Is it really acceptable to you to put roadblocks to voting in the way of hundreds of thousands of citizens to avoid an average of 1 voter fraud case each year?
BTW, There are many men and women in the military that are not citizens with voting rights. Just being a veteran does not guarantee you the right to vote. Personally, I think that military service should put you on the short list for citizenship but Republicans have repeatedly shot down attempts at that legislation.