skippy the bush kangaroo

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

what's black and white and red all over? nuns who are pissed because they can't vote

the bradblog tells us that indiana's voter fraud laws have cracked down on the scourge of democracy...80 year old nuns:

the supreme court's recent, outrageous approval of indiana's restrictive and disenfranchising photo id law --- better described as their voter suppression act, despite scalia's claim that "the burden at issue is minimal," to him, anyway --- is already "working" to disenfranchise legal voters, denying them of their right to cast a ballot like everyone else.

according to ep, it's not just veterans, elderly and minorities who are being affected by the ruling, so are young voters and, yes, nuns, who have reportedly already been disenfranchised today under the republican law...

this morning, in south bend, indiana, a freshman student at st. mary's college, excited to vote for the first time, left the polling place in tears because she only possessed a private college id and was unable to vote. the poll workers, nuns at a local convent, were trying to help the young student through her problem. while they were helping her, they realized that some of their fellow nuns, who had just arrived at the polling place, also could not vote because of the photo id law. not only was this group of nuns disenfranchised, but so would be four floors of retired nuns in their convent.
remember, the law was upheld by the supremes just last week, despite indiana's inability to point to a single instance of in-person, polling place, voter impersonation fraud (the type of "voter fraud" the law was purportedly meant to deter) in the entire history of the state.

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posted by skippy at 4:05 PM |

1 Comments:

In a way, it's comforting to know that the voter suppression laws are working. I had assumed this administration was so incompetent they couldn't manage anything correctly. Now we know they can if they really put their minds to it.

If we could only get them to care about something that wasn't evil....
commented by Anonymous acallidryas, 7:36 AM PDT  

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