ID law in Indiana: stops those pesky nuns from voting
By Ian Storrar
Posted on Tue May 06, 2008 at 07:09:26 PM EST
Out to steal your votes
In Indiana today young students and nuns, as old as 98, were denied their right to vote because of the strict and vote-suppressing photo ID laws in the state. The Supreme Court upheld the law in a split decision last week.
A dozen nuns in their eighties and nineties, barely able to make across the street to vote, were told they could not vote because they didn't have accepted ID. Four floors of nuns back at the convent for retired nuns couldn't produce ID either, so they didn't try. According to the AP:
Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.
Bottom line: the Indiana voter ID law worked as intended, it disenfranchised legitimate voters. There are numerous other examples coming out today of people unable to pass the new test to vote.
When nuns, too frail to travel to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, are turned away from the polls we see how misguided the idea of voter ID is.
Bruce Fein, yes Bruce Fein, summed it up well today in the Washington Times:
The fear of voter fraud was concocted. Indiana's Republican state legislators who cobbled together the law knew that for 192 years since Indiana joined the Union in 1816, or for more than two sightings of Halley's Comet, not a single case of in-person voter impersonation at polling places had been recorded!
Tags: Voter ID, election, primary, indiana (all tags)
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