Recently, the Supreme Court approved the Indiana law which required a valid and current government-issued identification in order to vote. Today, we're seeing the results of that decision, as 12 nuns were denied the right to vote.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRN59 j2QQCVZYwfdLSokUeN1K9hQD90GBCNO0
As the article notes, the nuns were all old, none of them drove, and although some of them brought passports none of the passports were current.
Now, I have no idea who these nuns intended to vote for. If they intended to vote in the Democratic primary, based on demographics I would guess most of them were intending to vote for Hillary Clinton (older, women voters, although their race is unspecified).
But that's not the point. Its a horrible and outrageous law, and even if all 12 of them did turn out to vote for Hillary and against Obama, I'm still appalled by them being turned away at the polls. The problem with voting in this country is not that people are so eager to vote that they're sneaking in, its that not enough people vote.
This is the Republican party, ladies and gentlemen. That's what we're fighting against.
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