So I'm looking up information on how to register for an absentee ballot in Harris County, and I'm not seeing anything about a "doctor's note". Where are you getting this requirement from?
If you have a pre-existing medical condition, shouldn't you already have an "on-record" doctor's note in your medical history?
If you don't have a pre-existing medical condition, then are you as really as "vulnerable" as you think you are? Just because one is scared of the virus is not sufficient (their words, not mine)
Interesting, but none of that is relevant since you have half a month to visit one of these early voting drive-thru stations. At that point, it's your own fault for waiting until the last minute.
At our Free Clinic and when I worked at the shelter, most of the poor and homeless that were disabled could not afford to see a physician to even have their disability documented. The other issue is that they have to have a doctor WILLING to jump through the hoops and take the time to fill out the paperwork and go through the back and forth hassle with the Social security disability administration to even have someone declared disabled. It costs money and a ton of time. It is difficult for them to even see a doctor at all, let alone one willing to do that for them, or can even do that for them. In the case of the homeless, we do not even know where to find them again or IF we can find them again.
When I was helping my father file for his disability after he had a series of strokes that impaired him, His Neurologist had to fill out his paperwork, send them copies of his records, all images ect. Then SSDI said that was not enough for them to make a decision so they had to send in more information and also get his file from his primary care Physician's office, who had died, which was difficult to obtain as his daughter had put all the records in a storage unit after he died, but we finally managed to obtain that for a FEE. Then we sent all that in. Then they said they needed more AGAIN. So they made him an appointment to see another doctor who did a physical exam on him and they made him another appointment for a psychologist who had him take more tests. Then when we informed his Neurologists what we were still going through, she became agitated with them and wrote them an additional letter making it perfectly clear HOW disabled he actually was and summarizing his file for them to plainly see what was wrong with him and that he was indisputably disabled. It still took 6 months to get a ruling from SSDI, and even longer for him to receive his first disability payment. On top of the doctors visits, records costs, and numerous calls to get through that part, we ALSO had to visit the Social security office repeatedly and wait in long lines throughout this process.
Poor, sick, injured people do not even have access to those resources to even be able to FILE for disability. To actually be declared disabled is difficult, and near impossible for someone without help or resources to be able to do on their own. Without me to do that with my Dad, he wouldn't even have been able to file at all. There are millions of people who do not have access to those resources to even do that. It isn't as easy as you make it out to be.
It is like you thinking it would be easy for my Mom to get an ID, My Mom was born on an Native American Indian reservation. Documents are not the same as the rest of the US, The documents she originally had were in a box in her closet that was ruined when my brother overflowed the bathtub when he was 7. It isn't easy to travel back to the reservation to try and obtain the necessary documents to be able to do so at all and Native Americans run into problems that others do not when trying to obtain documents due to the county clerks not even understanding the laws/rules pertaining to Native Americans. So in answer to your other question earlier, No it isn't easy to get my Mom an ID. Even more difficult during a Pandemic, as the reservation is closed due to the Pandemic, so it may not even be possible to do at all right now. Some Native Americans have been waiting decades to receive their documents. It is not an easy process and we would have to be able to take her multiple states away to do so.
The state and Navajo Nation vital records offices are collaborating to issue delayed birth certificates to Navajos.
www.daily-times.com
Last week, the state health department instituted a streamlined process for those Native Americans who were never issued birth certificate to obtain one.…
www.knau.org
People who do not have money to buy food, pay their utility bills, pay rent are not going to have money, or resources to do any of these things. These are obstacles that will prevent the poor and minorities from being able to vote at all, and yes a form of voter suppression.