Do you know what happened in Indiana Tuesday thanks to their adoption of voter ID laws upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court?

Nuns were denied the right to vote. They were in their 80s and 90s and lived in the same residence for most of their lives across the street from Notre Dame University.

And State Rep. Jeff Stone (R-Greendale) would like to ensure Wisconsin nuns, the elderly, and disabled get the same treatment.

"It is time that we get this passed here in Wisconsin," growled Stone, who for years has worked to erect barriers to voter participation. "There are no excuses left for not having this as part of our election process." (Capital Times)

So far, Wisconsin's voter ID law is on hold as republicans contemplate how to change the state constitution to get around Governor Doyle's veto power.

Get Uppity!

Ask Jeff Stone why his party wants to disenfranchise Wisconsin voters!

Rep.Stone [at] legis [dot] wisconsin [dot] gov

Once again, during Wisconsin's February Presidential Primary Election, hundreds of voter registration forms were received late. And once again, the group responsible was Women's Voices. Women Vote.

WVWV has strong connections to the Clinton campaign, and what's more damaging is that the group's robo calls provided voting misinformation targeting women and African Americans.

And no, this isn't idle speculation, or the work of unskilled interns. It's a pattern of voter supression that's ignited tens of thousands of complaints across 23 states.

NPR has the whole story, and calls the association with the Clinton camp "beyond dubious."

UPDATE: DailyKos has the whole breakdown. And note that each time a state has complained about the practice to WVWV they've said they'll stop it ... but they don't.

Via MAL Contends - Old habits die hard for Republicans.

Unfortunately, for the GOP many African-Americans remain clueless as to their proper place in American society. A hint: It's not at the ballot box.

So the Republican Party believes.

The U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will hear a voter ID case stemming from an Indiana law targeting poor and minority Americans to keep them from voting.

The Court is likely to decide the case next spring in time for the 2008 presidential elections, thereby possibly delivering a death blow to the Republican Party's national program (administered through the DoJ, such as US Atty's Biskupic's voter fraud cases, and state laws) of suppressing black, elderly and poor voters who skew against voting Republican.

Judge Terence Evans of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in dissent (cases are Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, 07-21, and Indiana Democratic Party v. Rokita, 07-25) clarifies the issue:

McClatchy Newspapers ran a piece by Greg Gordon Monday noting that the DoJ had conducted the voter fraud witch hunts in numerous states. Some highlights:

 “Former lawyers in the Civil Rights Division, however, said the voter fraud campaign is a partisan effort to disqualify legitimate voters, as occurred in Florida before the 2000 presidential election.” 

"Aggressive purging of the voter rolls tends to have a disproportionate impact on voters who move frequently, live in cities and have names that are more likely to be incorrectly entered into databases," said Joseph Rich, a former chief of the Justice Department's Voting Rights Section who's now an attorney with the liberal-leaning Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.