Curse those diabolical Republican legislators! They passed that voter ID law to keep minorities and old folks from voting for Democrats the way God intended them to. And just look at what happened:
More than 1.6 million votes were cast Tuesday in the Democratic and GOP presidential races with nearly all precincts reporting, according to unofficial tallies by The Associated Press. That smashed the 1992 primary turnout of a little more than 1 million votes.
Well, there were these 12 Roman Catholic nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, who were turned away, even though a fellow member of the Saint Mary's Convent was the polling inspector. But they had been told repeatedly they would need photo IDS, didn't get them and tried to vote anyway without them. And, as all the critics of the law point out, it's undercut by the fact that a photo ID isn't needed to vote absentee, so the nuns could have voted that way.
But never mind how things actually went. It's the principle of the thing! Reality doesn't count.
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I worked as an inspector at a one of those polling places with a high percentage of democrats, minorities, elderly, & folks with limited economic resources. We turned away only one of hundreds of voters yesterday because of the id law. And he knew coming in that his was long expired and he would probably need a new one.
He got it and came back later.
Twelve Nuns over the age of 65 were not permitted to vote at the polling place where a photo ID is required.
Under the law, they could have voted by mail-in absentee ballot ...which requires no photo ID if the nuns were on the voter roll.
Now that the Indiana legislature has addressed this important issue, maybe they can require DNA testing of people trying to buy liquor, to keep non-earthlings from using the alcohol to power their spaceships.