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.
