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kalikshama -> RE: Why Scott Walker made Worst Person in the World (12/13/2011 7:50:20 AM)
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But our winner? Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
We have yet another human face representing all the victims of this bubblehead marionette of the Koch Brothers. Please meet Ruthelle Frank of Brokaw, Wisconsin. Ruthelle is 84 years old and she's voted in every election since 1948, despite the fact that she has been paralyzed on her left side since birth.
Ms. Frank went even further than that. She didn't just vote for all these years, she was eventually elected to the Brokaw, Wisconsin Village Board.
But right now it looks like she's cast her final vote, 'cause she was born at home in 1927, so there's not birth certificate and so — even though Ms. Frank has a certificate of baptism and her Social Security card — she cannot get one of those new state-issued IDs that was foisted upon Wisconsin by that fascist bastard Scott Walker and the criminal gang put in control of the state by the blood money of the Kochs.
The State Register of Deeds in Wisconsin does have a record of her birth, but her maiden name was misspelled by the doctor in 1927. So — to get an actual birth certificate, so she can get her Walker-approved "identity papers" — she has to petition the court to get the mistake made in 1927 corrected in 2011. Total cost could easily exceed $200.
To prevent the almost non-existent crime of voting when you're not supposed to, $200 — to get an ID for a woman who has voted in every election since 1948. And before you say, "Well, that's asinine but it's just the one woman," one study estimates that there are 177,399 residents — 65 and older — who do not have state photo ID in Wisconsin alone.
Governor Scott Walker, fascist bastard — today's "Worst Person in the World."
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