Or they’re lazy. I have no other guesses as to why they weren’t ready to vote
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 Some showed up with outdated passports.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.
One newly married woman said she was told she couldn’t vote because her driver’s license name didn’t match the one on her voter registration record, said Myrna Perez of the Brennan Center Justice at New York University’s law school, coordinator of the 1-866-OUR-VOTE hot line. Another woman said she was turned away from casting her first-ever ballot because she had only a college-issued ID card and an out-of-state driver’s license, Perez said.
“These laws are confusing. People don’t know how they’re supposed to be applied,” she said.
There is absolutely nothing “confusing†about the law: Have a current government issued photo ID or you don’t get to vote.
No wonder these people vote Democrat.
I don’t know how things work in Indiana, but when the case involving the Washington State school teachers and the unions forcing them to contribute to the union’s chosen political candidates via their union dues, every one in Washington knew when that decision came down. News for days.
I heard about the Indiana Voter ID ruling while I was at Boomershoot. Orofino isn’t exactly BumFuck, Egypt, but it is just down the road.
This Voter ID law went all the way to the SCOTUS and made national news for three days afterwards. I will not believe that there was some sort of statewide media blackout on this case, especially not during the week after it came out. Seeing as how all it takes is a trip to the DMV and about an hour to get an ID, either these people live under really big rocks (no TV, no radio, no newspaper and no internet) and they’re just plain ignorant or they deliberately tried to game the system.
And no, I won’t be surprised if these same people bitch about this law again come November.
“Some showed up with outdated passports.”
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“Have a current government issued photo ID or you don’t get to vote.”
In fairness to some of the nuns, there’s nothing illegitimate about an expired passport as a form of identification or proof of citizenship. Just because it’s no longer useful as a travel document doesn’t mean you’re not you anymore or that you’ve lost your citizenship somewhere/how. I’d take an expired U.S. passport over lots of local or state-issued ID cards any day of the week.
The exceptions are instances such as when an adult is presenting an expired child’s passport, there’s too much change in appearance as children grow to adulthood for that to be acceptable.
” I will not believe that there was some sort of statewide media blackout on this case, especially not during the week after it came out.”
Actually there was since the SCOTUS didn’t sell out that week. 🙂