In an election year that is drawing millions of new voters to the polls, what hard evidence do you have that turnout in Indiana has hampered by the new law? If you believe voters stayed home because of the ID requirements, fine, but that’s simply your theory, not fact. All actual hard evidence and on-the-ground reporting from Indiana indicates that problems with the new law were virtually non-existent Tuesday (well, again, aside from the “nuns on a rampage”, as Pilt put it).

Blackrobe, you keep harping on the birth certificate requirement as if it’s the “be-all, end-all” in the Indiana law. If you actually read the Indiana law, Indiana residents who don’t have a copy of their birth certificate can bring any item from the “primary” document (and/or a “secondary” document) and receive their free ID. These are items (Medicare/Medicaid card, work authorization card, Vet’s Access card, etc., among others), of course, that you believe many Indiana residents simply don’t possess. As I posted last week, if thousands of people are running around Hoosier-land with absolutely no documentation as to who they are, I’d say Indiana has a much bigger problem on their hands than voting issues.