Tuesdays with Claymore

When I scanned this week’s funnies, I saw one that stopped me cold. It was, “Ok, I agree with this one…this does suck.” I checked that out immediately, fearing that the end of the world was imminent. It relates a sad story (at least 1/2 a box of Kleenex worth) of a 69-year old black woman who had at some unstated time ago relocated from NC to VA and, when she went to vote in VA, did not have the required photo ID VA law requires of its voters. She had with her a VA voter’s registration card, a VA bank account statement, and two NC DMV-issued documents, one of which was a NC driver’s license. She testified to this in Federal court where a challenge to VA’s voting law was heard. She was NOT denied the right to cast a vote. She WAS given a provisional ballot which was counted after she met the VA’s ID requirements. What’s funny is that if she had tried to vote in NC w/o the picture ID, she would have had to provide an affidavit in order to vote at all! The DU reprint of the Nation piece also says that others in line snickered at her predicament. No, lady, they weren’t snickering. They were pissed and grumbling because you were holding up the damn line!