re: #72 JasonA

Maddow is doing a story about a 96 year-old woman who can’t vote now because of the new ID laws. Problem is she can’t one because she doesn’t have her marriage license. ‘Cause you know, everyone thinks they’re going to need that the rest of their lives to prove who they are so they can vote.

And some of you support this nonsense.

This is also something that will affect adoptees in closed adoptions (which is most in the country alive today, especially my generation and earlier.) In the vast majority of states (ex: GA and AK), people do not have access to their original birth certificates, because they are sealed by state law.

Not even the person referenced has access to it. I know people who cannot get a passport because they do not have OBC access thanks to crackdowns on identity post-9/11.

Welcome to states rights/adoptionland/forced-childbirth America, where your own identity is a state secret. /blah