{"id":12983,"date":"2018-10-27T11:30:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/?p=12983"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:30:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T16:30:15","slug":"iag-elections-official-responds-to-temporary-drivers-licenses-being-used-at-ga-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/27\/iag-elections-official-responds-to-temporary-drivers-licenses-being-used-at-ga-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"IAG -Elections official responds to temporary driver\u2019s licenses being used at GA polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Insider Advantage Georgia<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>October 26, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elections official responds to temporary driver\u2019s licenses being used at GA polls<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We wish more officials would do this. Ms. Janine Eveler, Director of the Cobb County Elections and Registration, was kind enough to send this writer a response to my post on IAG earlier this week explaining that state law allows the drivers license Georgia issues to foreign nationals to be accepted as \u201cproper identification\u201d at the polls.<\/p>\n<p>We thought it fair \u2013 and educational \u2013 to share that reply with readers.<\/p>\n<p>The below is Ms. Eveler\u2019s response:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have only one staff member, a deputy registrar, who clears citizenship challenges. She is aware of the fact that a Georgia driver\u2019s license or ID card with the words LIMITED TERM is not acceptable to clear the challenge. Since your record was not notated as pending citizenship verification, there was no need for the other staff members to seek this deputy registrar\u2019s assistance. We cannot train every worker on every possible scenario, we have escalation procedures to handle unusual situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>D.A. King is president of the Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insideradvantage.com\/2018\/10\/26\/a-response-to-temporary-drivers-license-for-foreign-nationals-acceptable-id-at-georgia-polls\/\">Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insider Advantage Georgia October 26, 2018 Elections official responds to temporary driver\u2019s licenses being used at GA polls We wish more officials would do this. Ms. Janine Eveler, Director of the Cobb County Elections and Registration, was kind enough to send this writer a response to my post on IAG earlier this week explaining that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13003,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12983\/revisions\/13003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}