not Poindexter in Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. It's not my real name. It's a borrowed, made up name. A high school classmates had come up with this many years ago as an alias. She'd pictured Poindexter Oglethorpe as a descendant of some plantation owner in Virginia. This isn't my real name. I'm simply using it here as a screen name.
My real name, which I won't disclose here, also is unique. I've googled my name more than once and the only person I come up with is me.
But I'm not a felon. So there are at least two issues here: one is being a felon, the other is having a common name. I understand that in the recent election people would get turned away because someone with a similar name in a different state was apparently a felon. LInda K Thompson in one state was utterly confused with Linda J Thomas in another. Close, but no cigar as we used to say.
And uniqueness or commonality of names isn't really the issue. The issue is the right to vote.
Sometimes I'm astonished that certain names are shared by vastly more people than I'd have imagined. For instance, and I'm using pseudonyms here, I have a friend whose name is Roberta Langsworthy. She's the only person I know with that name, but to my vast asonishment, there are hundreds of Roberta Langsworthys out there. So just because I know only one, doesn't mean it's a unique name. And if only one of the many Roberta Langsworthys out there is a felon, then all of those with the same name are tainted. What bullshit.
Again, a made up name.
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