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ASHEVILLE, N.C. — An 86-year-old resident will get to vote in North Carolina's March 15 primary but only because her attempt to obtain photo identification earlier this week gained statewide attention, her son said.
On Monday, Reba Miller Bowser tried to get the ID at a North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles office by presenting two birth certificates, a Social Security card, a Medicare card, a cable bill and an apartment lease. DMV officials told her they needed a document that showed she had legally changed her maiden name to her married name, said her son Ed Bowser, who accompanied her.
“Yes, the DMV is bending over backwards in my mother’s individual situation, but if the DMV hadn’t been called to task by the media and there hadn’t been so much outrage and concern, would they be doing it?” Bowser asked.
The question disturbs Bowser, 64, because it raises a concern that many have about North Carolina’s voter ID law: Will people who have a legal right to vote in the state be able to do so in the primary and the general election Nov. 8?
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