Voter ID Casualties
(Click on [Original Article] to view our posts.). Well, kids, we have our first reported instance of the Supreme Court’s voter ID decision causing some voters to be turned away at the polls:
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Indiana nuns lacking ID denied at poll by fellow sister
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. “One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, ‘I don’t want to go do that,’” Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives. They weren’t given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. “You have to remember that some of these ladies don’t walk well. They’re in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts.” [snip] |
I’m guessing that outdated passports (even though they are, technically, official federal identification that contains a photograph of the voter. Outdated official federal IDs, but still: how many 80+ year old citizens do you think would be trying to vote illegally? How many of them do you think are also members of a religious convent?) are the closest thing to federal ID that these nuns can get without considerable time and effort being involved. I’m also guessing that convent officials might be somewhat reluctant to waste congregation supplied tithes on whatever federal IDs these nuns are eligible to get. Passports are close to $100 these days - and, while there’s a new passport card that is expected to be produced starting in June, it is not going to be of any use in traveling by air (for that, you have to get the passport book for $100), which will only cost $45. You didn’t really want to vote anyway, right?
I’m also wondering: how many of the Republican’t ditto monkeys who made a mockery of the voting process by listening to the Oxycontin Kid were required to produce valid picture ID?
Expect to see quite a bit of this type of voter invalidation in the November elections. I mean, personally - expect to see this. For some strange reason, I am not anticipating that the mainstream media will focus much (if at all) on this situation during their Republican’t propaganda efforts sheeple infotainment psyops sessions regular nightly news programs.
