VIDEO: Former Marine Tim Thompson is nervous about his first protest, but nevertheless confronts elections officials in Tennessee on Super Tuesday and refuses to show the required picture ID in order to vote. He has the proper ID, but sacrifices his ability to vote on behalf of thousands of low-income, older, and college-age citizens whose right to vote Thompson fought to protect as a Marine. He’s mad and tells a forceful story to his brother-in-law, filmmaker David Earnhardt, producer of “Uncounted.” For a status report about voter suppression legislation in North Carolina, click here for a one-page factsheet from Democracy North Carolina.
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