I worked elections in certain precints in Dallas a generation ago where Mexican citizens carrying Green Cards and what appeared to be Mexican voter documents also held and used Texas voter registrations, and were allowed to vote by the Democratic election judge in my precinct.
Because of differences in Mexican and U.S. law, it appears that, if you were born in Mexico or of parnts who were nationals, you can vote in Mexican elections even after taking out U. S. citizenship. How they decide in which district you should vote fascinates me. Of course this violates U. S. law and used, at that time, to amount to repudiation of American citizenship, but nobody wanted to touch this issue.
I realized after one election and precinct party convention (Republican) that my clerk had been on felony probation and ineligible to vote, but had not realized this becuase of the nature of his probation and because they sent him a new voter registration after his probation.
I had one client who attracted the attention of more kinds of law officers than I had ever seen in one place because she had somehow managed to get a Texas driver's licnese, complete with picture, while confiend in a federal prison in West Virginia, and nobody ever did figure out how she had done it.
I have known stolen government checks to be used as identification to get fishing licenses, which were used to get driver's licenses, which were used, you guessed it, to cash the stolen checks. They you can sell the licenses.
My parents were married, and I was born, in Pennsylvania, but I can't prove from my birth certificte or other state record that I exist, much less my country of birth or citizenship. It's a fascinating story, apart from the fact that any male my age could pass my birth cerifite off as his own. We didn't discover the problem with my mother's birth record until she applied for Social Seucrity at 65; Dad had no birth ceritfidate, but one U.S. and two Canddian birth yaars.
I had to get a court order declaring that one young client existed before we could get him a Social Security card.
I fought for years first to get Texas to issue non-driver ID's, becuase I can't see well enough to drive. Then we had a long fight to get those integrated into the same numbering syem as driver's licenses, so they would work for check cashing, recovery of stoeln property, etc. In the course of that fight, I got one letter from an attorney for the Texs Department of Public Safety insisting that there was no law agaisnt getting an official Texas ID card in a fictitious name, which of course overlooked the Penal Code, but I've lsot it between several moves and the destruction of my law office by arson, etc.
I had one client who took out a driver's license in one name and a state ID card in another, both of which he used becuse of a not-uncommon family situation, at the same DPS office on the same trip. It was easier for me to get a passport becuse
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