Indiana Polls Protected from Dangerous Decrepit Nuns

(updated below)

Posted by Brad Jacobson

Today in Indiana, a roaming pack of octogenarian and nonagenarian hooligans attempted to exercise their right to vote. Apparently, they didn't realize this was America:

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 Some showed up with outdated passports.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."

Take a walk, grannies! Oh...you can't walk. Well, just move it along, then. Nothing to see here, sisters!

Just another segment of our citizenry unconstitutionally penalized by last week's Supreme Court ruling. According to the Associated Press, thanks to this brilliant piece of legislation, more than twenty percent of blacks also won't be able to vote today in Indiana.

Did I mention that Indiana has never recorded "a single alleged case of in-person voter fraud in the state's history"? Ah yes, the preemptive doctrine applied to our own elections. It's not enough the government has privatized our electoral process, granting voting machine companies the right to proprietary secrets that directly impede our ability to verify the vote. Now, if you're not already purged from the voter rolls before you show up or some "accidental" and unverifiable glitch counts your vote for the candidate you voted against, you might be shooed away like the 98-year-old nun if you don't have the right ID.

To paraphrase Larisa, welcome to Soviet America!

Well, at least our mainstream media gave this anti-democratic Supreme Court decision the attention it deserved.

UPDATE: Brad Friedman, a truly impressive voting integrity watchdog, has much more.

Comments

[DugFmJamul]

Nonsense,

The nuns knew that they needed voter id before today. They just wanted to make an issue to keep non-citizens voting in our elections. The Pope should pay for their voter id cards he can afford it.

[Matt]

Get Greg Palast on the case!

For some people voting can become a bit of a...habit! :-)...I`ll get my coat. :-(