The non-partisan Election Protection coalition offers a mid-day press release detailing some of the problems being reported to their 1-866-OUR-VOTE hotline today from both Indiana and North Carolina.
The Supreme Court’s recent, outrageous approval of Indiana’s restrictive and disenfranchising Photo ID law — better described as their Voter Suppression Act, despite Scalia’s claim that “the burden at issue is minimal,” to him, anyway — is already “working” to disenfranchise legal voters, denying them their right to cast ballots like everyone else.
According to EP, it’s not just veterans, elderly, and minorities who are being affected by the ruling, so are young voters and, yes, nuns, who have reportedly already been disenfranchised today under the Republican law…
Remember, the law was upheld by the Supremes just last week, despite Indiana’s inability to point to a single instance of in-person, polling place, voter impersonation fraud (the type of “voter fraud” the law was purportedly meant to deter) in the entire history of the state.
UPDATE: Brad Jacobson has more on the dangerous “roaming pack of octogenarian and nonagenarian hooligans [nuns, who] attempted to exercise their right to vote,” including one of them, a clearly-up-to-no-good, 98 year-old, trouble maker who Catholic Antonin Scalia and friends don’t believe deserves the right to cast a ballot.
Additional updates at the end of this article, including details on the evil nuns, a newly married woman, and more disenfranchised students.
Milwaukee Magazine’s Bruce Murphy notes today that if a study recently done in Wisconsin correlates to numbers in Indiana, as many as 620,000 citizens in the Hoosier State might lack the Photo ID needed to cast votes there. That, even as the state downplayed the numbers in the SCOTUS case, arguing that there were only 43,000 such voters there. The authors of the WI study were unable to check the same numbers in Indiana, because “the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles would not provide the data needed to do the study,” reports Murphy.
EP’s news release goes on to list a number of other incidents being reported (if not yet by the corporate media) so far during voting today in IN and NC both, including multiple reports of voting machines problems; paper ballots not being offered to voters when machines go down; registered Independent voters being disallowed from voting in either party’s primary; or voters being given Republican ballots when they believed they were registered as Democrats.
A few of the specific incidents as reported by EP so far, (which we post along with the usual caveat that frequently the most serious concerns do not come to light, if ever, until the days and weeks following such e-elections) include, from Indiana…
- Multiple reports of voting machine problems, including from a school teacher who had to leave without casting a ballot because he had to get to school before classes started. Additionally, he said the mostly African-American voters were untrusting that the poll workers would ensure their votes would count.
- At another polling place, voters were not offered paper ballots when machines went down, and countless voters left without casting a ballot.
- A voter, previously convicted of a misdemeanor, was prevented from voting by a poll worker. Election Protection provided him with the code provision which dictates that only those convicted of a felony and those incarcerated cannot vote.
…and from North Carolina…
- Poll workers at a local precinct announced at 6:20 a.m. that there were no ballots and voters were sent home. Election Protection followed up and discovered that the polling place had the ballots in a box which had not been opened.
- Election Protection has also received multiple reports of registered Independents who were not allowed to vote in either primary, or were given Republican ballots despite believing they were registered as Democrats at polling sites.
FURTHER UPDATE: More from AP on the nuns, and others disenfranchised by Indiana today, their article headlined “Indiana nuns lacking ID denied at poll by fellow sister”…
Nonetheless, she said, 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.”
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One newly married woman said she was told she couldn’t vote because her driver’s license name didn’t match the one on her voter registration record
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According to the New Voters Project, sponsored by Student Public Interest Groups, about a dozen college students at Notre Dame, Butler University and Indiana University said they were told at the polls they didn’t have the right form of identification.
Angela Hiss, a 19-year-old sophomore at Notre Dame, presented her Notre Dame ID card and her Illinois driver’s license. Poll workers did not inform her that she could have cast a provisional ballot, she told project staff monitoring her polling place.
Why do Republicans hate nuns, students, and married people?
Well, hey, what did you expect?
Hoosier state=Indiana
Badger state?=Wisconsin
Am I more cornfused?
What irony, Scumelia disenfranchises Nuns lol
So…in the 6000 plus hours they had to get an ID…the just couldn’t find the time?
Damn nun’s and orphans…
Scalia needs to have his hairy knuckles rapped hard by the ghosts of every nun who ever tried to teach him. And he should have a 2X4 administered upside his head by the ghosts of everyone who ever died to protect the franchise in this country.
The sooner we rid ourselves of this unAmerican schwag, the better. Batter up!!
Apparently not, Don Haas. (“OMSMedia” is the hard rightwingnut brother of former San Diego Registrar/Hater of Voters, Mikel Haas).
Or perhaps they didn’t feel like they should be forced to take extra steps to vote that others are not (remember, when you guys used to believe in that whole “equal protection” thing? Circa FL 2000?)
Why do you and your party hate the Constitution, God, students and married people (as per the update I just posted to the story)?
Brad, “if a study recently done in Wisconsin correlates to numbers in Indiana, as many as 620,000 citizens in the
Hoosier[Badger] State might lack the Photo ID needed to cast a vote there.”Am I reading this wrong?…still cornfused
I’m sending a prayer and I hope that the true Justice prevails and that phony wap bastard Scalia gets excommunicated from the church and when he passes away he’ll be spending forever in the cold ground with the likes of Bush and Cheney.
You don’t suppose that the deep seated reason that Scalia did this was his childhood hate of one of those more then strict nuns we all knew very well or maybe getting back for all the whoopings that Notre Dame put on his school
Are the riggers up to no good in Lake Co. Indiana?
Sounds pretty messy up there
Floridiot asked:
You are. Though I’ll happily take the blame for poor sentence structure, on a too busy day.
Read the original linked article at the Milwaukee Journal for a much better explanation, but when they did a different type of study, based on BMV numbers in WI, they found much higher numbers of folks w/out Photo ID. Had similar percentages held in IN as were found in WI, the number of estimated folks w/out Photo ID in IN could be as high as 620k, according to the study (and if I read the Milwaukee Journal) correctly.
As to what’s up in Lake County…no idea what the hold up is. For the record, that county uses a combination of the failed MicroVote Infinity DREs and paperbased MV-464’s, as reported in Verified Voting’s database.
Hey, Floridiot!
So glad to see your previous post, Dude! I was just wondering the same thing/ now checking Brad’s threads for more info. As LAKE CO. was one of the counties hand-sifted by BEV, first on her list in fact, for the number of “purged” or “changed” voter rolls; considered the “second most liberal city in America!”–(after Sarasota, I guess?) So yes! What the hell are they doing with those numbers? Now CNN reporting that LAKE CO totals not expected to be dumped until midnight…they say ab ballots are now being counted.
ALSO: Judge orders two voting locations to stay open past closing time…doesn’t say where or how much later. Encouraging–MSNBC’s Chris Mathews is actually asking his people if they’re “holding back the numbers” for dramatic effect…close, Chris…keep asking about that, my fiesty Drunkie-McDrunk! I’d buy you a nice bottle of pricey hooch for a follow-up!…
(BTW–Following yours and DREDD’s very interesting connections/ research re: the link between DMV rolls and state wide voter databases–that would make perfect sense! Clever lads…)
MARION CO, too…0% reporting?
Correction: It’s MONROE CO…my bad.
The numbers on CNN’s Indiana primary site are close. Looks like Monroe County is only reporting 53% of results. That would more than offset the 0% reporting in Union (if Union goes like surrounding counties).
The big question is Lake County. If Obama’s numbers are as big as expected (where else is as close to Chicago’s south side?), he might just end up with 50% of the vote.
Obama is closing in on her in Indiana….
I like using the NYT’s maps. Lake and Union counties not reporting yet.
51%-49%, 99! Holy…do you think we are seeing a MASSIVE VOTER TURNOUT actually throw off these attempted purging tactics?
Are we seeing the CITIZENS over-ride the SUPREME COURT?…
Wouldn’t that be great! Maybe we are… maybe we are…. Can’t stand to hope too much because they keep bashing me back down on the rocks, but… maybe we are.
What blows my mind is by how much Obama has creamed Clinton in the counties he’s won. Just astonishing.
[Which, of course, makes me wonder all kinds of awful things…. :-(]
It’s magic!
How did those Lake County numbers change so dramatically?
GREG0-
I have the exact same question! Obama had over 60% of the Lake County vote and 49.4% of the total vote with 95% of the total Indiana precincts reporting. I refreshed the browser and everything had changed, especially in Lake County which was supposed to go heavily for Obama. It showed Obama now down to 55% of the Lake County vote, and down to 49.1% of the total vote with 99% of Indiana precincts reporting. I wish I’d got a screen shot of the total votes because Hillary must have won about 90% of the votes from the 4% that came in when I refreshed my browser!
Lake County is just not as Obama friendly as Tippecanoe or other counties! What a surprise! Especially with a 2 to 1 lead at 53% of vote counted…
Brad #9, Thanks, I went and read the link and I’m all straightened out now 😉
Jeannie #10, I’m tellin’ ya, it’s as leaky as Niagara Falls
Brad, you and everybody here (except troll-types of course) rock… I haven’t been checking up here as regularly as I should, I had a bit of bad-news-burnout after Pennsylvania. What’s the deal with Lake Co.? How long did it take to report the totals there after polls closed? Any exit poll discrepancies? I’m under the impression that numbers were changed to provide Hillary with a narrow victory, as a loss by even a minimal amount would be devastating, as opposed to a narrow victory providing cover for her sham of a campaign to go on…and on, and on and on. The shamelessness of the whole of her arguments for continuing to rip the party in two is astounding. But we know this. Thanks for keeping up the fight, I need to clue more people in to the never-ending nightmare which is electronic voting, Voter-ID Laws, etc. Aint nothin changing for the better until we fix our election process, and without Bradblog and Co., that most certainly will never happen. You’re the man.
I hope it is true that nuns don’t get none and the priest’s don’t either …
but they both get a little … so let them vote already … WTF???
So the Nun’s apparently were unaware of the requirement for ID in spite of it being advertised widely in Indiana.
As well the Nun’s, although chose not to use the absentee ballot, though they meet the requirements.
It looks like the closest BMV is a whopping 5.2 miles from St. Mary’s College where they lived.
Yes, the voter ID law is just so onerous, it disenfranchised them. Not. Their choices disenfranchised them. They chose to use their vote to push a political point rather then to actually vote.