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Obama's 107-Year-Old Dance Partner Unable To Obtain Photo ID
"I don’t think I’ll ever get that face card," she told the Post. "I was birthed by a midwife and the birthday put in a Bible somewhere. I don’t know if they even had birth certificates back then."
Luckily for McLaurin, DC does not require a photo ID to vote, unlike several states.
"I’d pray long and hard to my God if they ever tried to do something like that to me," she told Milloy.
The DMV has issued McLaurin a temporary ID, but she cannot use that to obtain her birth certificate.
"It’s sad to see my mother having to stand in lines, getting tired,” Felipe Cardoso, McLaurin's son, told the Post. "She can’t understand how her picture could be in all those newspapers and all over the Internet, how so many people could recognize her on the street and want to take selfies with her, and she can’t even get a photo ID."
Milloy also recounted an attempt made by Reba Miller Bowser, an 86-year-old North Carolina resident, to obtain a photo ID. When she went to get her new ID, the only document she was missing was proof that she changed her name when she got married. Ultimately, the DMV issued her an ID before the state's primary elections this year, according to Milloy.