The HoosierPundit, Scott Fluhr, has done an excellent job of covering the St. Joe Democrat Party's harassment of Christian students at Bethel College.
From The Hoosier Pundit:
And here I thought that it was the Republicans, with their evil voter ID law, that were trying to suppress voters and keep people from the polls.
I guess not.
Doing whatever it takes to win--and I mean whatever it takes--is par for the course for Democrats up in St. Joe County.
From WNDU:
The winning Mishawaka councilman still wants to challenge whether or not some voters should have been able to vote in his district.
Democratic incumbent Ron Banicki says a number of Bethel College students should not be able to vote in the 6th district, because they live in the 5th District.
He wants students to vote with provisional ballots until they can prove they live in his district.
“We are not necessarily challenging students from Bethel College but anybody that lives in the wrong district faculty staff commuter students that live in the different districts,” says 6th District Incumbent Ron Banicki.
Banicki's challenger was a Bethel College professor.
The election board also says workers were reprimanded today after students were harassed and intimidated while trying to vote in the district.
As a former student at Indiana Wesleyan University, I remember the same harassment by the Grant County Democrat Party, including (but not restricted to):
- Sending letters to IWU students suggesting that they will lose college scholarships if they choose to vote in Indiana.
- Sending letters to Taylor University students (also in Grant County) suggesting that by voting in Indiana they will be forced to cancel their current drivers' licenses to replace them with an Indiana license.
- In Grant County, two Democrats were arrested for challenging every college student (at both Taylor University and IWU) who walked through the doors of each polling location.
Despite their intimidation tactics, both IWU and Taylor had high vote turnout in 2000 (when I was there). Each polling location had such long lines that students were still voting an hour after the polling location was closed.
In the end, this hypocrisy is a great illustration of why the Democrats are challenging the Voter ID law while at the same time attempting to disenfranchise Christian voters. Their opposition to the voter ID law is political, not idealistic- nothing more. And, as covered in a recent post, at least partially motivated by racism.
