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For a long time, I believed voter disenfranchisement was something that happened to other people. People who couldnât leave work to stand in long lines. People who didnât have a car to get to the polls. People who did not have a state-issued ID. People who were too young or too old to navigate registration requirements.
I donât fall into any of those categories. I have voted in every presidential election since I was 18 years old. I was even lucky enough to come of voting age during an election year, giving me almost 10 elections under my belt.
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For a long time, I believed voter disenfranchisement was something that happened to other people. People who couldn t leave work to stand in long lines. People who didn t have a car to get to the polls. People who did not have a state-issued ID. People who were too young or too old to navigate registration requirements.
I don t fall into any of those categories. I have voted in every presidential election since I was 18 years old. I was even lucky enough to come of voting age during an election year, giving me almost 10 elections under my belt.
But in the 2020 presidential election, my fourth election as a resident of Georgia, it appears my vote was not counted.