When it comes to voting, Indiana has one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country.

If you don't believe us, ask the 12 nuns who weren't allowed to cast ballots Tuesday.

Sister Julie McGuire, a poll worker, was forced to turn away her fellow nuns because they didn't have a valid ID.

Like McGuire, the nuns live in St. Mary's Convent in South Bend, right across the street from the University of Notre Dame.

All of them are in their 80s or 90s. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.

They weren't given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, McGuire said.

The convent will make a "very concerted effort" to get proper identification for the nuns in time for the general election, said McGuire.

"We're going to take from now until November to get them out and get this done."

Late ballots don't mesh with high-tech

Elections officials in Indiana expected a large number of Republican voters to "cross over" and cast their ballots in the Democratic primary.

But they were still caught off-guard.

In Howard County, Mona Myers, the county clerk, rushed out and ordered 13,600 more ballots from a nearby printer.

But optical scanning machines couldn't read the newly printed ballots, which meant they would have to be hand-counted at each precinct.

A Pabst for Obama, $18 tip for bartender

Happy hour was just that in Raleigh if you wanted to knock back a beer with Barack Obama, or if you were a bartender in need of a hefty tip.

Obama made a last-minute, surprise appearance at a downtown bar in the North Carolina capital, ordering a Pabst Blue Ribbon (beer of the working man) and spending a half-hour greeting voters.

"Everyone voted?" he hollered, walking up Martin Street as he headed into the Raleigh Times bar.

He went inside, ordered a draft and tipped bartender Jay Winfrey $18.

"I think he forgot his change," Winfrey joked.

Young voter out 'to make a difference'

Tuesday's North Carolina primary marked only the second time that Andre Hickman, 24, came out to vote.

"I know I was coming to make a difference today," said Hickman, a stacker at a Big Lots store.

So what inspired him to cast his ballot?

First, there are his concerns about gas prices, health care and the economy.

Then, there is Obama.

"When I saw a black man representing my race, I wanted to find out what he was talking about," Hickman said.

The more he heard about Obama, the better he liked him, Hickman said.

Clinton stops by Indy 500 track

It's hard to visit Indiana without stopping by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

It's even harder to not get caught up in the racing spirit.

"We need to get on the track in America and get toward the finish line," Hillary Clinton said when she visited Gasoline Alley during some last-minute campaigning.

She also met with driver Sarah Fisher, who has pledged her support for the New York senator and presented her with a signed racing helmet.

Clinton said forecasting results would be like "predicting the entire race of the Indy 500 before it even started."

This report contains information from The Associated Press, the Winston Salem (N.C.) Journal, the Kokomo (Ind.) Tribune and the Raleigh News & Observer.