tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491511723469477072.post4230655713484029300..comments2009-03-27T12:01:35.526-05:00Rep Trey Martinez Fischerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940812404747936086noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5491511723469477072.post-20136100979262318142009-03-27T11:52:00.000-05:002009-03-27T11:52:00.000-05:00No bigfoot, but a big pain in the butt if this Voter Photo ID passes. <BR/><BR/>Hypothetical scenario #1:<BR/>If a black man goes to vote with voter ID and a photo ID showing he&#39;s white, will he vote? Per powers in this legislation -- No, doesn&#39;t match.<BR/><BR/>Hypothetical scenario #2:<BR/>If a 20ish longhaired skate punk goes to vote with voter ID and a photo ID showing he&#39;s 72, will he vote? Per powers in this legislation -- No, doesn&#39;t match.<BR/><BR/>Being a transitioned transsexual, I&#39;m familiar with our specific situation per the Standards of Care (SOC). The senate legislation allowed for using &quot;sex change&quot; papers as proof -- but no one wakes up one day and gets surgery. It&#39;s a process that takes a minimum of one year successfully living in the opposite gender. That requires ID. Yet for 16 years, the TX legislature has failed to even deal with the issue.<BR/><BR/>So Hypothetical Scenario #3:<BR/>If I go to vote with my male issued voter ID, and male ID, but present as obvious female, or a person named Kathy who lives as male with beard, receding hairline &amp; body hair be able vote? Per powers in this legislation -- No, doesn&#39;t match.<BR/><BR/>Further, I have two friends going through divorces. They have fully transitioned from male to female, but cannot change their ID per their divorce judges&#39; instructions: they must retain their current name and gender status until their divorces are final. Attempting name change risks arrest. Not changing their ID to match their presentation means they don&#39;t get to vote -- not for violating the law, but following it!<BR/><BR/>It&#39;s why I waited all night to testify before the Senate Committee of the Whole. It&#39;s on record, on their video, and they are fully aware they are potentially about to violate our voting rights. There&#39;s been ample time for them to have dealt with the name change issue, they haven&#39;t and now it&#39;s gonna come back to bite them in the ass.<BR/><BR/>If this bill passes, the first transitioning transsexual turned away from voting will be instructed to file a federal lawsuit against the State of Texas and at least Sen. Troy Fraser (maybe Bohac as well) for knowingly disenfranchising voting rights of law-abiding, taxpaying U.S. citizens.Vanessa Edwards Fosterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04301512822816441705noreply@blogger.com