Texas: “San Antonio leaders, residents outraged after former mayor Lila Cockrell isn’t allowed to vote”

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Outrage over Texas’ voter ID law was reignited in San Antonio on Thursday after the city’s 97-year-old former mayor was turned away from a polling site for lack of identification.


Lila Cockrell was one of more than 12,000 people who flocked to the polls Wednesday to vote in San Antonio’s mayoral runoffs, but she didn’t get to cast a ballot when she couldn’t present an authorized form of ID.

“I’m 97, I don’t drive anymore,” said Cockrell, San Antonio’s first female mayor. “I haven’t been on a cruise or anything in years.”

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