Apparently Indiana's voter ID law prevented 12 nuns from voting. Is this really the best that opponents of the law could muster?!
Oh, those poor nuns!
I realize (and often point out in various contexts!) that absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence. But still, a thought experiment:
Which of these are you more likely to hear about, if true?
A. Someone was prevented from casting a legitimate vote.
B. Someone was prevented from casting a fraudulent vote.
Actually, nuns are a pretty damn good case for them to muster. Who wants to argue to keep nuns from voting? It doesn't get better than that.
In 2006, a congresswoman from Indiana couldn't vote because she didn't have her ID with her, but she presumably came back later. Same for a Republican congressman from Ohio. There's also an old African-American woman in St. Louis, where the state is proposing people bring proof of citizenship to the polls, who says her home state of Mississippi has no record of a birth certificate so she's SOL for proving she was born her.
There are a lot of PR-ready people out there for this.
Posted by: M.S at May 15, 2008 07:41 AMBorn "here," ha, that's a good typo.
Posted by: M.S. at May 15, 2008 07:41 AM