Posted on 05/13/2008 10:11:30 AM PDT by NYer
This is great. AP is carrying this story about a group of Religious Sisters who couldn't vote yesterday in Indiana because they lacked proper I.D. The best part is that the one who turned them away was another Sister! (emphases added)
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow sister because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph. Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow members of 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 Some showed up with outdated passports.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.
The convent will make "a very concerted effort" to get proper identification for the nuns in time for the general election. "We're going to take from now until November to get them out and get this done. "You can't do this like school kids on a bus," she said. "I wish we could."
Late Tuesday, Secretary of State Todd Rokita was unapologetic.
"Indiana's Voter ID Law applies to everyone. From all accounts that we've heard, the sisters were aware of the photo ID requirements and chose not to follow them," he said in a statement released by his office.
Rules are rules...even for you, Sister!
Why didn’t they have proper ID?
This happened last Tuesday but I thought you might enjoy the story.
and nuns should know a thing or two about following rules. ;)
I dunno...but why were nuns voting Democrat? Isn’t that like cows voting for Hamburger Helper?
Cause their old, don’t drive, never go out and never needed it before.
Did she make them put out their hands hands so that she could slap them with a ruler?
Yes, why didn’t they have IDs. Since Vatican II, wearing street close, drivers licenses, etc. They all should have had plenty of IDs. Sorry, I think it’s their own fault.
Rules are for EVERYONE! What are they doing voting in a DEMOCRAT Primary anyway!
And we’re supposed to be outraged and sympathetic that this law is being used to surpress the nun vote?
We’re supposed to be outraged that the Bush Supreme Court upheld such a terrible law????
Why didn’t the AP find some people who might not be in this country legally who were turned away from a polling place, and report on that aspect of the law instead? Or someone who was registered to vote in more than precinct, who had to be turned away because the ID didn’t match? Why not some more common scenarios of people being turned away? Why make it seem like this law wants to punish kind old nuns?
Probably any number of reasons. The article says they’re all in their 80’s and 90’s and do not drive. I imagine that since they’ve been living in the convent (which would presumably handle “business” on their behalf), there hasn’t been a need to obtain any updated identification until now. I’m Catholic, but I don’t really know much about convent life (other than having to be *really* quiet when walking by the one at my Catholic grade school!), so I could be totally wrong. Just throwing it out there. Of course, it’s the responsibility of every citizen to have at least the minimum requirement in regards proper identification.
“Women without ID and plenty of notice showed up at the polls anyway. Treated like every other non-ID’d voter.”
I love how the MSM is really trying to jump this angle.
They already had a lawyer.
They have known about the ID requirement since it was passed.
They had ten days to present IDs and vote a provisional ballot, but they declined.
Like I said, a setup.
When I was in the private practice of law, we called a case you couldn't win against a sympathetic plaintiff a "Seven nuns in a station wagon" case. Obviously this lawyer and his Dem buddies have decided that the way to challenge the law is with seven nuns in a station wagon (without a drivers license among them.)
two words: liberation theology
Considering how this is the Democrat primary it would not shock me that people did indeed attempt to vote multiple times on multiple days.
I think they just flew into the polls to make a point. Flying nuns don’t need driver licenses.
But, since the Supreme Court upheld the law, how can they have a lawyer and already be ready to go to court? Are they going to argue that it violates religious freedom to expect a nun to have an ID? Exactly where can they go with this legally, considering the Supreme Court has already ruled on it?
No. There are so many liberal nuns, one who ministered to my mom when she was in assisted living, lamented the fact that the new pope was too conservative.
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