[EL] Disenfranchised?

Fri Apr 14 09:10:28 PDT 2017

It seems awfully privileged and arrogant to assume that all of us have at
ready disposal our immigration papers or even our birth certificates.  I
for one do not have my birth certificate and if I ever needed one I would
have to contact NY (I live in MN) and pay the fees to obtain it.  In
addition, for those naturalized as children I doubt all of them readily
have their immigration papers and even for those naturalized as a adult not
everyone has the papers because frankly,they might not think they need them
after a certain period of time or they were lost, or who knows what.

It is easy to say it is easy to do something when we sit in tenured
professorships making good money and not having to worry about life.

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 10:54 AM, Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu> wrote:

> Message from Ari Berman (who is not on the listserv but who got forwarded
> some of the posts by a list member):
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> My mom doesn’t know if my grandmother still had a copy of her
> naturalization papers (they’re traveling now and her papers are somewhere
> in a box in Iowa). But even if she did, the naturalization papers would’ve
> had her maiden name, not the married name she used on her Medicare card &
> all other documents, which would’ve posed an additional problem for
> obtaining a voter ID. The point of my story was that she did not possess
> any of the forms of ID now required by Iowa to vote.
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> *From: *"Smith, Brad" <BSmith at law.capital.edu>
> *Date: *Friday, April 14, 2017 at 4:54 AM
> *To: *Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>, Election Law Listserv <
> law-election at uci.edu>
> *Subject: *Disenfranchised?
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> 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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> *Bradley A. Smith*
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> *From:* law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu [
> law-election-bounces at department-lists.uci.edu] on behalf of Rick Hasen [
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> *Sent:* Friday, April 14, 2017 12:05 AM
> *To:* Election Law Listserv
> *Subject:* [EL] ELB News and Commentary 4/14/17
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> *“Iowa’s New Voter-ID Law Would Have Disenfranchised My Grandmother”
> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://electionlawblog.org/%3fp%3d92105&c=E,1,C9OAPqCKAeuoTXE_mGBWWArfcsI_76elRWG2P7qcZhoeY0QNPM2Ve6KZzFGXM0e5bkV1HktGfG9eIDYpjPR21xOOoY6LR-C4drh_16jkgw,,&typo=1>*
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> Posted on April 13, 2017 8:42 pm
> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://electionlawblog.org/%3fp%3d92105&c=E,1,VnCEQ3mCsZCCznHbcEfii25IY-6p2jt_JNCPbS9-kx39oQvRyZ05hD8i2WhWppYg-r_-OpcBR13rLq3m627RjgZg22D4y-g2wuQYcuL9JPNRRKAhwCqPfr8,&typo=1>
>  by *Rick Hasen*
> <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http://electionlawblog.org/%3fauthor%3d3&c=E,1,AD3FMWkZ_opU-kOi7HchsPP4PPAl2j_6lRTHpYTatZ1B2BaTgx6LhkkLv3nunE7UeKaxdgBVIPIB5guKTrdo-yFEAfZ1ZmXnNTiyUZjK8Ih_NHG-Yliv&typo=1>
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> Ari Berman
> <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:
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> *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.*
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> *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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> Posted in election administration
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