Voting Rights -- New Legislation -- April 11, 205

Locator: 48463VOTING.

With the new ID requirements for voting having passed the US House, my wife is now making plans for voting. 

She will roll our firebox on a "dolly" to the voting location. In the firebox, which is incredibly heavy, she has all her important documents. 

Every document is certified with a raised seal.

This includes her certificate of birth and certificate of citizenship.

She was born to a US soldier-citizen stationed in South Korea when he married a Japanese woman during the "Korean War." Her father was born in the US to an undocumented father who was deported back to Mexico "back in the day." The undocumented father was legally married to an Hispanic-American born in the US.  The undocumented grandfather could have pursued a path to citizenship --> green card --> naturalization but for unknown reasons did not pursue that option. His American wife had died by that time (when my wife's father was only five years old) so the undocumented grandfather probably had no more ties to the states, other than his one son who was being raised by Hispanic-American relatives and citizens of the United States. 

My wife's mother, Japanese, married and moved to the US when she was eighteen years old, was also a naturalized citizen.

With that complicated history, my wife is understandably concerned about her status. She knows she is a naturalized citizen and has all the certified documents to prove it, but in this environment, who knows?