June 11, 2008

Woman, 97, battles voter ID law

"A 97-year-old Surprise woman who has voted in the past 19 presidential elections said she finds herself a casualty in the voter ID battle.

Shirley Preiss cannot register in Arizona for the November elections without proof of citizenship.

"I'm a legal American," Preiss said. "I'm born here. Born and raised in America."

The Arizona law was approved by voters in 2004 as Proposition 200 on that year's general election ballot. It requires voters to produce specified types of identification when casting ballots at polling places and to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote either for the first time or in a different county.

Preiss was born in 1910 in Clinton, Ky., before birth certificates were issued. She said she no longer has a driver's license and never had a passport.

"You can see my mother's not a national threat," said her son Nathan Nemnich. "Been voting since 1932." Nemnich produced the files documenting his attempts to get her registered."

The article is here.

Posted by Randy Riddle at June 11, 2008 08:59 AM