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Friday, November 16, 2007

Democrats Suppress Voting by Christian College Students in Mishawaka

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.

For those of you not familiar with Bethel College, it is (as described on its website) "an evangelical Christian college affiliated with the Missionary Church."

An HP reader has sent me a PDF scan of an article about this in the Bethel Beacon, the college's student paper, and I'll post that as soon as I can convert it over to an image.