and it gives me no pleasure to identify the people leading this war as republicans. it s not good for the country, but facts are facts. the republican party in texas is not only waging war on women s access to reproductive health care, they re even waging war on women s access to the ballot box. they are now enforcing rules that are aimed to stop women from voting. it s absolutely outrageous. women are getting that. and i predict that in the general election, you re going to see a huge wave of women standing up, going to the ballot box, insisting on voting and saying we will not accept this. terry, i want to show that to everybody because it was wendy davis who experienced a problem, that she encountered going to vote. take a look. like many women who are voting in texas today, i was required to sign an affidavit because the name on my voter ridge station card is slightly different than the name on my driver s license.
registration card is slightly different than the name on my driver s license. my driver s license includes my maiden name. my voter registration card does not. early voting has started in texas for next week s elections there. and for this election, texas voters are being forced to show documentation in order to be allowed to vote that they have never had to show before. even wendy davis got held up at the polls today and had to swear an affidavit as to her identity since her actual texas i.d. showing her actual name and her actual picture are no longer enough to just let her vote. this is expected to be a light turnout election in texas this year, but if this is how it s going to go for texas women in particular, next november when wendy davis is on the ballot trying to get elected governor in the state, and it s going to be a way bigger turnout than it was right now, this is going to be a huge freaking hullabaloo down there unless they get this voter i.d. thing sorted out. this pas
voter register certificate that is mailed to you every two years by the county, if you have resided in the same residence. the new law now requires you to present also a voter photo id, which had never been requested or required in the past. i presented my voter register certificate that bears my legal name on my birth certificate of sandra lee my married name is watts. sandra lee watts. and i also presented my driver s license, which has never been suspended, never been it is a valid driver s license, which i have had for 52 years. and it says, sandra matheson watts. at that point, an election worker made a determination that my name was not the same. and i said, i am presenting to you under the law a photo id for verification. and in the training he told me is that it requires it to be identical.
vote, they will provide a voter i.d. the election official will then verify the voter i.d. with the registration and they will make a determination as to whether or not it is substantially similar. the regulations to implement the law literally states that it must be identical. my driver s license, which i ve had for 52 years, has my maiden name as my middle name and my every other valid legal document i have has my birth middle name, which is lee. so it was not identical, and the election official told me it had to be identical. the election official is charged with making a determination as to whether or not it is substantially similar. and if it substantially similar, then they will allow you to vote but you must sign an aka affidavit which is you are one and the same person. if the election official decides
i subsequently went back and asked to see the law. i read the law once again. and what it states is when a voter presents themselves to vote, they will provide a voter i.d. the election official will then verify the voter i.d. with the registration and they will make a determination as to whether or not it is substantially similar. the regulations to implement the law literally states that it must be identical. my driver s license, which i ve had for 52 years, has my maiden name as my middle name and my every other valid legal document i have has my birth middle name, which is lee. so it was not identical, and the election official told me it had to be identical. the election official is charged with making a determination as to whether or not it is substantially similar. and if it substantially similar,