Greg Palast: Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits

Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits

Thursday, 24 October 2013 09:13
By Greg Palast, Truthout | Opinion


On May 6, 2008, 12 fraudulent voters, dressed as nuns, attempted to cast ballots in the presidential primary in Indiana.

Luckily, ten of them were caught, stopped cold by Indiana's new voter photo ID law. The law had been found to be constitutional by Federal Judge Richard Posner of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.

It turns out the nuns that Posner's ruling turned away were, in fact, nuns. All the sisters had photo driver's licenses, but they had expired (the licenses, not the nuns). The Sisters of the Holy Cross, had, mercifully, given up driving (they were pushing 90 years of age.)

It was a cute story that ran nationwide. What wasn't so cute, and ran nowhere in the US press, was that 72,000 black voters were blocked at the polls by this Posner-blessed photo ID law. .................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19580-naughty-nuns-bad-bankers-and-ballot-bandits