September 27, 2012

Did You Hear The One About the Nuns Who Weren't Alowed to Vote? | Alternet

Did You Hear The One About the Nuns Who Weren't Alowed to Vote? | Alternet
"And who are the white folk lacking ID? The elderly, like the sisters, and students like Angela Hiss and Allyson Miller, whose official state IDs don’t list their dorm room addresses and so can’t be used to vote.
Black folk, the elderly, students, poor whites blocked from registering and voting—a federal judge didn’t think it was all that coincidental. Justice Terence Evans could see a pattern: “The Indiana voter photo ID law is a not-too- thinly veiled attempt to discourage election-day turnout by certain folks believed to skew Democratic"."