From the Associated Press:
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.
The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the precinct anyway.
Uppity old girls, aren't they? I guess the "fellow bride" couldn't cut 'em any slack. Rules are rules.
Mimi,
ReplyDeleteThe unfortunate Indiana law demanding photo identification to allow the "priviledge" of the vote, upheld by those a**holes we now have on the Supreme Court, has a mirror statute in my great, neo-con state of Georgia. A fully transparent plot to disenfranchise the elderly and poor, who are as unlikely to have a driver's license or passport as they are likely to vote for progressive politicians,has been embraced by Republicans nationwide.It's just the latest ploy of the plutocrats to thwart Jeffersonian democracy.
And all in the name of preventing voter fraud.
Ironically, in Georgia, you gotta have that photo ID to vote in-person, but not to vote an absentee ballot. Dare you guess which party has the preponderance of absentee(vacation, second home,etc.) voters?
Mendacity never stunk more, Tennessee.
John, I know the nefarious motives behind these laws. What's next?
ReplyDeleteI'm no lawyer, but the Georgia law should be unconstitutional because it is not applied equally. Has it been tested yet?
If you scroll down my sidebar, you will see the very quote you mention from Tennessee. That's the odor of the Bush maladministration. - death.
I mentioned this on Eschaton tonight: GOTV efforts must include a major push to help those without photo IDs to obtain them.
ReplyDeleteThe Supremes ruled the Indiana law didn't violate the Constitution.
ReplyDeleteWhich means the solution is an addendum to the Voting Rights Act; basically. Congress has the power to fix this.
And they should.
Geor3ge, Rmj. Yes. This must be fixed.
ReplyDeleteJust one more step towards a National Identity Card. You can pick out the trouble makers easier that way. You know, they may need to be sent to a re-education camp. F 'ing Fascists!
ReplyDeleteBad rule. Bad precedent. People are being disenfranchised.
ReplyDeleteBad supremes.
People knew not what they did when they voted for the guy they thought they'd rather have a beer with. Sick-making.
This ruling has got to go.
ReplyDeleteHi, Little Church Guy. Thanks for visiting and putting in your two cents.
PJ, all those folks never got to have a beer with him anyway. What was the point?