I post this here because it's hitting women

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5. On a related note,

an elderly powerhouse of a woman in my community responded the first election after Texas passed the requirement for a photo ID to vote by marching into the polling location with a LARGE framed portrait of herself I'm pretty sure had been hanging over her mantel the only time I was at her home. (Where after serving me lunch I'd been grilled for more than an hourabout the nonprofit I'd founded to pursue a community radio station license while she took notes in her notebook.)

In our small town, everyone knew M.F. As conservative as a dyed-in-the-wool rural Texas woman of her era often could be. Very definitely could use a rifle, if only for Texas rattlesnakes and cottonmouth water moccasins. She'd married a hometown boy who'd served in the marines in WWII, and they had lived here since the 1940s. Volunteered in a lot of areas, was a formidable regular at city council meetings and of course always voted.

She was indignant at government demanding proof of who she was.

Not sure, but I suspect she was allowed to vote. I sure wouldn't have wanted to cross her.