93 Year-Old Is Turned Away From Voting Due to New Voter ID Laws in Alabama.

[DhhD]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/03/1304147/-Thanks-to-new-voter-ID-law-93-year-old-voter-turned-away-in-Alabama?detail=email#

Willie Mims, 93, showed up to vote at his polling place in Escambia County Tuesday morning for Alabama’s primary elections. Mims, who is African-American, no longer drives, doesn’t have a license, and has no other form of ID. As a result, he was turned away without voting. Mims wasn’t even offered the chance to cast a provisional ballot, as the law requires in that situation.
Jenny McCharen of Empower Alabama, a progressive group that gave Mims a ride to the polls, recounted the story for msnbc. McCharen said Mims’s voter file showed he has voted in every election since 2000, as far back as the records go.

[tech3149]

1. See! The system works?

It's just a question of for whom.

[yallerdawg]

2. In Alabama...

it's not just to suppress Democratic votes.

It's to go back in time to the good old days when 'those people' weren't allowed to vote.

Can you imagine how Willie Mims felt to be turned away? What history this man has lived through?

Can you imagine how the people felt who turned him away? Who didn't want him to vote?

It is sickening.

Willie Mims is on Chris Hayes right as I am posting this.

[blkmusclmachine]

3. The South Shall Rise Again. One way or another...

[FiveGoodMen]

5. The CULTURE of the south needs to be eradicated

Once and for all.

[Gothmog]

4. The only purpose of this law is to suppress the vote

The Last Word had a good segment on this incident last night