Thank you for proving why efforts to reduce fraudulent voting is so important.

I saw this story yesterday, which mentions 32 Indiana voters who didn't have identification and somehow couldn't find a ride to the voter registrar's office to prove their identity.

But today we find this story about one of them.

On the eve of a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Indiana Voter ID law has become a story with a twist: One of the individuals used by opponents to the law as an example of how the law hurts older Hoosiers is registered to vote in two states.

Faye Buis-Ewing, 72, who has been telling the media she is a 50-year resident of Indiana, at one point in the past few years also claimed two states as her primary residence and received a homestead exemption on her property taxes in both states.

In other words, what we have here is a case of voter fraud. After all, she has FLORIDA identification, proving her to be a FLORIDA resident.

Gearing up for the high court's review, news media around the country have been trumpeting the ordeals that Ewing and others in Indiana allegedly suffered due to Indiana's voter ID law. One news story related how Ewing received a standing ovation from poll workers in Lafayette after she spent several hours on Election Day 2006 obtaining an Indiana photo ID.

When poll workers wouldn't accept her Florida license as a valid ID for voting, she was told she could cast a provisional vote, but she declined. Her birth certificate wasn’t acceptable because it didn't have her married – and therefore identifying – name on it, according to a brief filed with the Supreme Court by the Brennan Center.

It took four hours and visits to two cities to secure the necessary documents for Ewing to vote, the brief and news stories said.

That would, of course, help explain how she and her husband have been defrauding either Indiana or Florida of property tax money for a number of years, because she cannot legally have a homestead exemption in both states -- just as she cannot legally register or vote in both states. The only way in which she has been inconvenienced here is by being forced to do additional legwork to vote illegally in Indiana -- and the resultant exposure as a tax cheat.

So tell me -- will we see Faye Buis-Ewing prosecuted for her crimes?

By the way, I'd have to assume that Faye Buis-Ewing is a Democrat -- having been caught in her illegal activity, she immediately claimed that she wasn't a criminal, but that she was instead the victim. No wonder liberals want her to vote.

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