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Voting Rights–and Wrongs 6

Remember, it wasn’t the Supremes who sang, “Won’t Get Fooled Again“:

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 Some showed up with outdated passports.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.”

Of course, the question is, “Why are the Republicans afraid of nuns’ voting?” (Follow the link before you comment, oh ye two or three who choose to comment.)

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6 comments

  1. Bill

    May 7, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    Imagine that…requiring someone to show an ID before voting.  That goes against the basic principles of the Democratic party:  everyone has a right to vote, including the folks residing in the local cemeteries.

     
  2. Frank

    May 7, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    Imagine that.  

    Requiring photo IDs when not so long ago a utility bill or a birth certificate was enough.

    It’s all part of the Republican desire to disenfranchise anyone who they think might not have enough money to think that Republicans rock.

    Not that I’m a Catholic or anything, which I’m not, but for God’s sake disenfranchising Nuns.

    It’s Republithink to the Nth degree.

    Did you follow the link?  Voting fraud occurs in the counting room, not in the voting room.

    The dead people who historically have voted in Chicago did not vote in the voting room.  

    They voted in the counting room.

    The idea of large numbers of voters driving from here to there and voting under false IDs is crap.

    Republican crap.  

    It’s the finest kind of crap.

     
  3. Opie

    May 7, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Maybe they were Buddhist nuns. No, wait, Gore’s not running.

     
  4. chris the plumber

    May 8, 2008 at 12:48 am

    LOL Opie!!!!!

     
  5. Karen

    May 8, 2008 at 1:49 am

    I actually read the story the other day, & I didn’t have a problem with anyone requiring picture ID. And they could have done the temporary thing & came back with the proper ID to have them counted.

     
  6. Second Son

    May 9, 2008 at 5:41 am

    Separation of Chuch and State. Giving nuns a break because they’re nuns is not only silly, but illegal.