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What should've been a formality to get a concession for cancer treatment foreshadowed how difficult it may be for poor Indians to 'prove' their citizenship.
Normally when you're 96. she went to the local dmv with a ton of documentation. she brought her lease, a rent receipt, her voter registration card, her birth certificate. naturally that 96-year-old birth certificate carries the name she was born with, dorothy alex staale alexsander instead of dorothy cooper. she said, quote, i didn't have my marriage certificate, i don't know what difference it makes. it made all the difference in the world. the clerk looked at all of the documents and said, no, no, dorothy cooper, age 96, voting in tennessee since the 1930s, no, we will not give you the i.d. ...