…Kenneth Thompson, who served in the US army in Europe, told Click2Houston, a Harris county news outlet, he had voted in every election since he was 21 and even remembered paying a 50-cent poll tax in the 1950s.
“I’ve been voting many, many years and I’ve never missed a vote,” he said, adding that he considers voting a duty.
But under a voting restriction bill known as SB1 and passed last August, Thompson could be unable to meet the state’s 31 January voter registration deadline for an absentee ballot.
According to the new law, Thompson is required to submit a social security or driver’s license number that matches state or county records. When Thompson registered to vote decades ago, however, such requirements were not in place.
“He registered to vote in the 1940s and they didn’t require that,” said Delinda Holland, Thompson’s daughter…
Source: Second world war veteran twice denied absentee ballot under Texas voting law | Texas | The Guardian

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