[EL] Disenfranchised?

Fri Apr 14 06:57:31 PDT 2017

The bill provides free ID for all registered voters who don't receive one
from DMV for whatever reason.

https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=87&ba=HF516

>From the Des Moines Register, all registrants will receive a free
alternative voter ID card in the event they do not want or need a DL or
other state ID.

"The proposed legislation requires the Secretary of State's office to
compare lists of newly registered voters against the state Department of
Transportation's list of Iowans who have a driver's license or
non-operator's identification cards. Those who register but do not already
have a state-issued ID card through the Department of Transportation
automatically would receive a free one in the mail.

That card, under an amendment Rep. Ken Rizer, R-Cedar Rapids, presented
Monday, would act both as a voter registration card and a qualifying voter
ID card. It would include the voter's signature, a unique identification
number and a bar code that could be scanned."

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/27/voter-id-legislation-advances-iowa-house/98477228/

Regards,

Don Palmer

On Apr 14, 2017 8:10 AM, "Gabriel Gopen" <gabe.gopen at gmail.com> wrote:

Why do you invariably operate under the assumption that every rightful
citizen has ready access to documents?  Mr. Bergman's late grandmother was
89-years-old when she left Brooklyn.  Her naturalization papers would have
been no less than four decades old. Perhaps the senior citizens you know
all lead near, orderly lives with carefully labeled file cabinets.  But I
do pro bono cases for AARP and the reality that I see is much more
complicated.  If she possessed the papers at all (and not a male guardian),
is that a reasonable record keeping burden?
 How does that balance against the mere "perception" of a voter fraud
problem in Iowa?

Oh, and Chag same'ach and happy Good Friday.

On Apr 14, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu> wrote:

Would Ari Berman's mother really have been "disenfranchised" by the voter
ID law advancing in Iowa? Since his mother voted, she presumably was a U.S.
citizen. Since, as Berman explains, she was a U.S. citizen by
naturalization, she would have naturalization papers. A resident of Iowa
may obtain an Iowa non-operator ID by presenting naturalization papers.

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*“Iowa’s New Voter-ID Law Would Have Disenfranchised My Grandmother”
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<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https://www.thenation.com/article/iowas-new-voter-id-law-would-have-disenfranchised-my-grandmother/&c=E,1,H8Qusc_Z_TMks7CEzwpIcMVZrL0ZvjUjWjBGc5QnqxvnNN9qpqzWj_ofqpTIjYA0duU9eapZ1U4eIb_viXWUeBN2f8Qsd9RKYfiAUq50_A,,&typo=1>
for
The Nation:

*My grandmother Sylvia moved from Brooklyn to Iowa when she was 89 years
old. It was a culture shock, to say the least. When my mom took her to
vote, she complained of the candidates, “There isn’t anybody who’s Jewish!”*

*I thought of my grandmother, who passed away in 2005 at 99, when the Iowa
Legislature passed a strict voter-ID law
<https://twitter.com/desmoinesdem/status/852563709536948224> today. She
didn’t have a driver’s license because she never drove (she’d frequently
walk two miles from her apartment to the grocery store). Her passport
expired long ago. She never had a US birth certificate because she was born
in Poland and fled the Holocaust. She used her Medicare card as
identification. She didn’t possess any of the forms of government-issued
photo identification that Iowa will soon require to vote.*

*The ACLU of Iowa reports that 11 percent
<https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https://www.aclu-ia.org/en/news/paul-pates-voter-id-bill-would-disenfranchise-thousands&c=E,1,F1-C0_f3nZI6mikvKtekrDHg05zRlj4hZMHBOwK3fDthAb98cstWgsXinQfw5Ci7Bf47d1SfKiO_wG4sfjphu4UNWWhBuWrcDR_AVJ3v0c6ryRalqsg,&typo=1>
of
eligible Iowa voters—260,000 people—don’t have a driver’s license or
non-operator ID, according to the US Census and the Iowa Department of
Transportation, and could be disenfranchised by the bill. My grandmother,
if she were still alive today, would have been one of them.*

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