A Katrina-level hurricane may ravage Indiana today; we have to be ready to report on its path of destruction through the state. We have to make the real imaginable to those who are not there, just as we did in 2005. This hurricane will pound at the pillars of democracy, blowing countless voters out of their polling places — because they do not have the proper state-sanctioned photo identification.
Low-income voters, the elderly, and young students would be affected the most. They are the ones who may not have needed to get proper identification in the past, or who may not have maintained it as current into the present. The first two groups are those least able to take time away to work their way through the bureaucratic requirements needed for them to be able to exercise their most basic democratic right: an equal opportunity to vote on who will lead their nation.
A terrible lesson in voter suppression may be taught today. We need to collect individual stories and make sure that people see it for what it is: the political equivalent of Katrina, in which the legitimate demand of the less privileged for protection is intentionally ignored, to widespread shock and outrage.
