Olean Blount shows a refund she got after she was mistakenly charged for a photo ID.
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The Tennessean /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Three trips. More than 120 miles. Three hours with her daughter in the car.
That is what it took for Olean Blount to get the right identification card to cast her ballot.
“I don’t know why I needed it,” she said. “Everybody around here knows me.”
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