The Supreme Court ruling LAST Monday, 1 short week before the pivotal primary, has to rewrite the script for voter outreach for TODAY, or else many staunch supporters won't be able to have a vote counted on Tuesday.
Your GOTV phone calls, or door-to-door canvass, will bear fruit only if you check and ask, "Do you have a state-institution ID, one that shows an expiration date?" If they don't, the Obama field offices need to be prepared to help the voter either (1) get the documents on Monday (transportation) or (2) - per the SoS site for Indiana - help the person the day before Election Day - to "vote absentee-in-person at the county election office before Election Day, and while there, affirm that an exemption (for indigence/poverty) applies to you."
If the voter does not have the resources to acquire the documents to bring to BMV, they can affirm on Monday at the county Election office they're entitled to the exemption. For a vote to count by Election Day, this is the only option there's time for if a person can't get the set of documents.
Voters should be asked to double-check their registration status today too
Again, this requires coordination and transportation help.
The image above of Indiana map is from the front page of blackboxvoting.org - the Indiana SoS believes that swollen voter rolls justifies purging of lists.
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The Supreme Court decision 7 days ago is a bigger game changer than all the other ups and downs of the last few weeks.
The heartless ruling most affects the young, the poor, elderly, and people who don't drive.
The rules that the Court upheld are the strictest in the nation, you can get the full document requirements from the Indiana Secretary of State site HERE.
Consider this: in 2006 a US Congresswoman's Capitol Hill ID (for Rep. Julia Carson) was deemed inadequate because of the expiration date requirement. Eventually, a few phone calls back and forth to the Elections Board let the Indiana congresswoman vote despite not having acceptable ID. Read on in the linked article: a Notre Dame student with his college ID and Ohio driver's license was not allowed into the voting booth.
How does a voter avoid being shunted off to Provisional-land, a faroff place where votes are never counted on the the same day as voting, and where a portion of them are tallied only several days later, after the winner is declared.
The ID must be government issued, or else state public-university issued (a private university ID from Indiana is no good, private univ students will need to go get a state document); it must have either an expiration date ahead, or else an expiration date not older than the date of the last general election (that is, expiration date not older than Nov 7, 2006).
The SoS site also says if you want to claim a poverty exemption for paying for a birth certificate or passport document to obtain the proper ID, then you can vote and have your vote count this way:
"Vote absentee-in-person at the county election office before Election Day, and while there, affirm that an exemption (for indigence/poverty) applies to you."
Therefore, part of campaign's efforts for Monday should be to drive people to the county election office if they won't have PhotoId documents, so they can vote with the exemption and not be shunted off to provisional ballots (which won't count in time).
If you're an in-state or out-of-state student at an Indiana college, see the specific ID requirements for college students here. Indiana is not encouraging non-residents to vote.
Get ready for Monday. Obama campaign has to put GOTV resources (including transportation and info) with every voter contact to make sure people can cast real votes - not placebo votes.
SCOTUS' decision last Monday has not allowed a lot of time for dealing with this. So the campaign needs to be quick on its feet.