“She’s never had a copy of her birth certificate,” said [Rev. Celester] Webb, who has been trying to get a copy for his mother for years. But she was born at home, in rural Mississippi. He’s been told that the courthouse in Grenada, Miss., burned down, possibly destroying her birth records.

For a woman who grew up poor and black in the pre-Civil Rights deep south, and who’s never missed an election, the idea that a constitutional amendment could take away that right is horrifying, Webb said. [Star Tribune]

So this 84-year-old woman is horrified that she might lose the right to vote, huh? I guess she should have thought of that before her hometown courthouse burned down.

In all seriousness, though, there are going to be thousands of stories like this, and thus thousands of Minnesotans who will lose their most fundamental right. And all for a policy that won’t solve a single problem.