Disenfranchised 92yo black woman sues just hours after NC gov. signs voter ID law

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57. Haven't read what the "substantial" cost is.

And that might be legitimately relativized to income.

My mother's birth documents failed to match much of her ID.

Her SS card had her name misspelled, and since the SS card was a form of ID at many places for many years banks, her DL, etc., all had it misspelled.

It was easy to get things changed over. Not in NC, though, so I can't comment there.

The one thing that might have been bad is if she had failed to update her last name when she was married. Most states have a limit on how long you have to change your name. My wife kept her maiden name for professional reasons and only wanted to chuck it after 15 years of marriage because she changed professions. Her publishing history wasn't anything she cared about anymore.

TX requires a court order for that kind of thing, and that gets expensive. So we simply got a new marriage license and were remarried. New license, we were within the stipulated time for a free name change.