Alabama Stops Issuing Drivers’ Licenses In Black Counties
Alabama will stop issuing drivers’ licences in counties where 75% of the registered voters are black.
Because of budget cuts, driver license examiners will no longer work at 31 part-time satellite offices in those areas.
As Raw Story notes, this would mean that residents will need to travel to other counties to apply for licenses. This move comes just one year after the state’s voter photo ID law went into effect.
Take a look at the 10 Alabama counties with the highest percentage of non-white registered voters. That’s Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes, Bullock, Perry, Wilcox, Dallas, Hale, and Montgomery, according to the Alabama Secretary of State’s office. Alabama, thanks to its budgetary insanity and inanity, just opted to close driver license bureaus in eight of them. All but Dallas and Montgomery will be closed.
Closed. In a state in which driver licenses or special photo IDs are a requirement for voting.
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tracey marie October 1st, 2015 at 13:03
Can’t wait to hear how Carson explains this.
rg9rts October 1st, 2015 at 13:14
Good
whatthe46 October 1st, 2015 at 13:34
he walked 10 miles in the snow, up hill, 5 days a week, just to get to kindergarten don’t you know.
The Original Just Me October 1st, 2015 at 13:39
And it was Uphill Both ways. Poor man doesn’t know Up from Down.
whatthe46 October 1st, 2015 at 13:44
good one. haha
rg9rts October 1st, 2015 at 13:14
Do they really think this won’t end up in federal court??
tracey marie October 1st, 2015 at 13:30
They tried this in Texas, the courts ruled it unconstituional
rg9rts October 1st, 2015 at 13:37
Like drug testing welfare recipients
The Original Just Me October 1st, 2015 at 13:45
Okay, Black Counties should have a Black Out on driver’s licenses. That makes sense. To a Republican anyway.
Roctuna October 1st, 2015 at 14:01
Hey, where are our resident trolls to tell us that Voter ID laws have nothing to do with voter suppression and racial bigotry? What a load of crap. Yes, this will be challenged in Federal court and yes it’ll probably lose, but maybe not before 2016.
tracey marie October 1st, 2015 at 14:12
It will be put on hold once the lawsuits begin, it will not be enforced in the state.
arc99 October 1st, 2015 at 15:37
First require a specific state-issued document in order for a person to vote.
Next, close the offices where this document can be obtained, but close those located in communities which primarily vote Democratic.
Finally, convince the low information GOP base that it is all to protect the integrity of the electoral process and has nothing to do with partisan advantage.
I echo Roctuna’s question. Hey right wingers, where are all of you justifying this latest move to disenfranchise thousands of black voters. Do you still think anyone with a brain (which of course rules out much of the GOP base), actually believes this is about electoral integrity?
Roctuna October 1st, 2015 at 19:08
And of course, no replies from Redeye Doofus or Tater or any of them.
tracey marie October 1st, 2015 at 19:29
They are for this and see no reason to defend it.
Roctuna October 1st, 2015 at 20:55
Of course they agree, I expect that, but for all their bluster they just don’t have the balls to defend the policies resulting from rw bigotry.
Buford2k11 October 1st, 2015 at 17:28
If ya think that is bad, wait until they “purge” suspected illegal voters, and force folks to pay to play the “find all the documents required” game…all the while, they are snickering behind the scenes because they know the voting machines are rigged anyway….
allison1050 October 1st, 2015 at 15:09
But of course!
amersham46 October 1st, 2015 at 15:56
Trying to find a word stronger that stupid they would understand , sorry no luck
labman57 October 1st, 2015 at 21:35
Republican legislators have not even attempted to hide their contempt for the democratic process. In true Machiavellian fashion, they have displayed a willingness to take an ideological dump on the fundamental principles of our democracy in order to further their political agenda.
Since Republicans cannot count on the votes from key demographic sectors of the electorate, they have opted for a different approach — reduce the number of these citizens who are able to vote.
And so they have strategized (and to some extent, implemented) a multi-pronged effort to curtail the ability of minority, student, and elderly voters to participate in the election process:
1) Make it more difficult to “prove” your citizenship via voter ID legislation, fully aware that the elderly, out-of-state college students, and socio-economically disenfranchised citizens will have a much more difficult time providing the narrowly-defined necessary documentation to verify their right to vote. Some states have also brazenly eliminated state ID-issuing offices in predominantly minority-occupied districts.
– unlike voting, buying beer or boarding a commercial airliner are not fundamental American rights.
2) Cull the registration database for names deemed to “probably” be fictitious or otherwise fraudulent. (Anyone whose surname ends in “-ez” is most certainly an invalid registrant …)
3) Eliminate or drastically reduce early voting and/or reduce the number of election precincts., since student, poor, and elderly voters tend to have a more difficult time getting to the polls on the first Tuesday of November, and urban precincts are more likely to have extremely long lines that require you to stand for hours in line.
4) Create modern equivalents of the poll tax (part of the old Jim Crow laws) wherein selected demographic groups must incur out-of-pocket expenses to retain the right to vote.
5) Use gerrymandering policies to redistrict red states so that predominantly white rural regions that represent a minority of the populace attain the majority of the voting power.
With respect to the voter ID legislation/registered voter purges that have been pushed forth by Republican-controlled state legislatures under the guise of reducing nonexistent “voter fraud”, GOP legislators should simply cut to the chase and proclaim that the only Americans who have a legitimate right to vote are those who are registered members of the Republican Party.
amersham46 October 1st, 2015 at 23:48
A lawyer could get rich on that one