From the Associated Press:
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 Some showed up with outdated passports.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.”
What's the big deal?
Nuns don't get a free pass when it comes to voting.
The fact that the convent will get photo IDs for the elderly nuns shows that it can be done. If an individual is capable of going to the polls and casting a vote, the person is capable of getting a proper ID.
If the 98-year-old nun doesn't want to get an ID, then she doesn't have to vote.
Every American has an interest in making sure that elections are clean.
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