A 93-year-old African-American woman from Philadelphia named Viviette Applewhite, for sosme reason could not vote. The law in Pennsylvania requires that citizens present a "state-issued" photo ID card before voting, which, in Applewhite's case, required that she first produce a birth certificate. With the help of a attorney, pro bono, she was finally able to get another copy of her birth certificate but on it, her birth name is Brook. But her other forms of identification have her named as Applewhite, the name she got after adoption. Her 1950s adoption papers are lost in an office in Mississippi, and the state is not able to obtain them. So therefore she isn’t able to vote.
It's really interesting to see something like this happen because now days, people don't care to vote and they don't want too. They don't realize that people had to go through a lot in order to get those rights. People had to deal with beatings, innocent people being treated so badly, segregation through out the land in the 1960's and thankfully the civil rights movement being lead by MLK. But all this happened because of the issue of voting. I'm proud to see a women still giving a care about voting, especially since she had to go through the whole civil rights movement.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/06/opinion/hair-dianis-voting-rights/
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