Copyrighted Image? DMCA | Paul Carroll, an 86-year-old World War II veteran who has lived in the same Ohio town for four decades, was denied a chance to vote in the state's primary contests today after a poll worker denied his form of identification, a recently-acquired photo ID from the Department of Veterans Affairs. The poll worker rejected the ID because it did not contain an address, as required by Ohio law.
Carroll told the Cleveland Plain Dealer that he got the ID from the VA after his driver's license expired because he doesn't drive anymore: "My beef is that I had to pay a driver to take me up there because I don't walk so well and have to use this cane and now I can't even vote," said Paul Carroll, 86, who has lived in Aurora nearly 40 years, running his own business, Carroll Tire, until 1975. "I had to stop driving, but I got the photo ID from the Veterans Affairs instead, just a month or so ago... |
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