With No Photo IDs, Nuns Denied Ballots In Indiana Primary

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Source: McClatchy

With no photo IDs, nuns denied ballots in Indiana primary

By Greg Gordon | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2008

WASHINGTON — At least 10 retired nuns in South Bend, Ind., were barred from casting regular ballots in Tuesday's Indiana Democratic primary election because they lacked photo IDs required under a state law upheld last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

John Borkowski, a South Bend lawyer volunteering as an election watchdog for the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said several of the retired nuns had been voting all of their lives but were told they lacked the required photo IDs.

Indiana's toughest-in-the-nation law, which the high court upheld by a 6-3 vote, requires every voter to produce a state-issued photo ID card.

Borkowski said that two of the nuns with whom he spoke ``were very frustrated'' and so upset that they refused to exercise their rights to cast provisional ballots. He said one of the nuns told him that many other elderly nuns living on four floors of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross decided not to vote upon learning that their sisters had been turned away at the poll in their building.

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- So. If they had been allowed to vote, which way do you think they would've gone? Hillary or Barak?

Yeah, I know. I think they'd have voted for Hillary. If for no other reason than to piss-off the Pope!
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