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As a public school educator who was once declared principal of the year, Liza Burrell-Aldana talks to young people about their responsibility to this country.
So it shook her Thursday evening, she said, when a poll worker at an early-voting site in Fairfax County, Virginia, looked at her driver’s license and asked her, twice: “Are you a citizen?”
She said she was. The worker then asked whether Burrell-Aldana had proof of citizenship in her purse, she recalled.
“Who asks that question? I was like, ‘Why would I carry that with me?’” Burrell-Aldana said.
Burrell-Aldana, who immigrated from Colombia in 2002 and became a U.S. citizen in 2011, hadn’t been asked such questions when she voted in three previous presidential elections, and said the political climate seems to have given license for people to ask.
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Thanks to Debra Linick for the reference.
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