My next legal challenge has arrived! My 18-year-old son, voter registration card and picture ID in hand, was not allowed to vote in Tuesday’s elections because Michigan has a law that one must register 30 days or more before the election at hand. Supposedly this is to give the city clerk time to send the voter registration. But he had the voter registration! And when he went to the Secretary of State in order to get his license, he had to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was an American citizen and a Michigan resident by providing all the relevant documents.
He has lived in this very house all his life and we can prove that handily. So why shouldn’t he be allowed to vote?
The other little known fact is that IF he had registered to vote 6 months before his 18th birthday, he would have been allowed to vote in this election. But how many people know about that exception to the 30 day rule? Very few, I’ll wager.
So we are writing a letter to State Representative, Tim Bledsoe, who seemed very interested by the issue at last night's party. Hopefully we can get that law modified to reflect an individual voter’s reality.
It’s always something, isn’t it?
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Aieee!
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