The Supreme Court is contemplating the radical proposal that voters should provide photo ID. Now we hear this:
On the eve of a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indiana Voter ID law has become a story with a twist: One of the individuals used by opponents to the law as an example of how the law hurts older Hoosiers is registered to vote in two states.
Faye Buis-Ewing, 72, who has been telling the media she is a 50-year resident of Indiana, at one point in the past few years also claimed two states as her primary residence and received a homestead exemption on her property taxes in both states.
Monday night from her Florida home, Ewing said she and her husband Kenneth "winter in Florida and summer in Indiana." She admitted to registering to vote in both states, but stressed that she’s never voted in Florida. She also has a Florida driver’s license, but when she tried to use it as her photo ID in the Indiana elections in November 2006, poll workers wouldn’t accept it.
Subsequently, Ewing became a sort-of poster child for the opposition when the Indiana League of Women Voters (ILWV) told media that the problems Ewing had voting that day shows why the high court should strike it down.
Yes, you read that correctly: She tried to use a Florida driver’s license to vote in an Indiana election. Try to stop laughing.
Keep in mind that the photo ID requirement is alleged to harm poor people who don’t have cars, and hence don’t have driver’s licenses. Who is offered up as proof? A woman with (a) a driver’s license and (b) a winter home in Florida! Clearly, The Man is keeping Faye Buis-Ewing down. (Via NRO Corner.)
