In its coverage of the oral arguments before the Supreme Court on Indiana’s voter ID law, CNN fails to mention that one of the two people the Democrats presented as possibly having been harmed by this law 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. Monday night from her Florida home, Ewing said she and her husband Kenneth “winter in Florida and summer in Indiana.” She admitted to registering to vote in both states, but stressed that she¹s never voted in Florida. She also has a Florida driver’s license, but when she tried to use it as her photo ID in the Indiana elections in November 2006, poll workers wouldn’t accept it.

The poor, disenfranchised woman! Until the government caught her and took away her Indiana exemption, she was claiming homestead property tax exemptions in two states at the same time (in many jurisdictions that is illegal) and she still has dual voter registration. I’m glad my home state has the ID law to prevent this person from voting in Indiana. She’s clearly a resident of Florida, that became clear when she surrendered her Indiana driver’s license and got a Florida one (perhaps she wanted to avoid paying state income taxes, too?).

What’s so funny is that they looked around desperately for someone to use as an example of why the law is bad, and then this is the person they scrape up — someone attempting to vote in a state where she does not live. The search continues for the mythical person who has actually been harmed by a voter ID law.

In the meantime, perhaps I should challenge the existing driver ID law in the District of Columbia. It’s so inconvenient every time I have to renew my license, yet I get in so much trouble for driving without one.