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1: My name should be on the roll for the 5th Ward. Images of both disenfranchised voters, rejected grant search
at polling stations; and voter fraud initiated at the booth in order to stuff ballots danced through my head. I surmised that the thing was somewhere in my office.3: This is Hyde Park. I was willing to trek to my Loop office and backtrack to the South Side – if need be. This white woman was so terrified of Cottage Grove Avenue that she actually refused to vote in the most recent mid-term elections. She may be voting for Obama at this very moment – feeling good about herself. Still, without complete knowledge of the process, I concluded that my inability to present my voter registration card would not be a problem.. Certainly, she has moved to some picket-fence house in some far away place where there are no black people.Never mind that.I wake up, ready to vote. I had braced myself to listlessly shuffle my feet in queue for the next ten hours.2: This is the South Side of Chicago.Egads!At that moment, I was not certain if I would be barred from casting my ballot without carrying the voter card. The night beforehand, I had frantically searched my apartment to find my voter registration card, and laid the document out plainly on the kitchen counter.So. I had heard of Depression-era style bread lines at the pollsChicagoUm er.. As I exit my residence, I observe that the paperwork does not actually carry any cards – but is rather a notice, reminding me to vote early and identifying my local polling station. I am assuming that she believed the youngsters milling about the area in broad daylight were gangsters, plotting her very own murder.My neighborhood is the epicenter of Barack