NT, the above statement by you is not quite the whole story.
Before I get to that, though, how many people do you think have an out of state driver license who currently live in Alabama and want to vote?
I've said in this thread, and provided quotes from Alabama government links, that clearly explain that FREE voter ID cards are easier to obtain than driver licenses - the documentation required doesn't seem as stringent, and they are in very many locations including EVERY county's registrar's office PLUS mobile units as explained below:
http://yellowhammernews.com/politic...-voter-ids-will-be-available-in-all-counties/
A mobile unit is going to replace the closed offices? Isn't that just swell, peachy-keen and neat-o! That solves everything!
I just hope everyone gets lots of advance notice when and where the mobile unit will roll up to their neck of the woods. I hope if they don't drive or there's no convenient public transportation or Uber, it's not too far for an older person to walk since they may no longer be driving. Hell, I hope they
can walk because they just might have to.
The four remaining driver's license offices would be in the cities of Birmingham, Huntsville, Montgomery and Mobile, meaning that the cuts would hit people in rural areas hardest. Someone who currently can visit the office in Dothan in southeastern Alabama, for instance, would instead have to travel 107 miles to Montgomery or 186 miles to Mobile to obtain a license for the first time. (Renewals can be done online.)
The legislature passed Alabama's photo ID law in 2011, arguing that it would prevent voter fraud -- even though proven cases of in-person voter impersonation fraud are extremely rare. Voters had previously been allowed to show non-photo forms of identification, like a Social Security card or a utility bill. Now, if voters don't have one of the acceptable forms of photo ID, they can obtain a free Alabama voter photo ID card from a county registrar's office. And still some long-time voters couldn't vote in last year's elections, because they didn't have a way to travel to such an office to get the ID.
Bradley Davidson, executive director of Empower Alabama, pointed that people may not realize soon enough that the 2011 law doesn't allow voters to use expired photo IDs. "If the state limits the number of offices where voters can renew their licenses, I would expect to see an increase in eligible voters turned away at the polls," he said.
He called that outcome "another unintended consequence of a law passed to solve a problem that doesn't exist." Davidson said, "Impersonating someone else at the polls has been shown by multiple analyses to be an incredibly dumb way to steal an election, which is why it doesn't happen, in Alabama or any other state."
Nothing inconvenient about having to travel over a hundred miles to get some ID. Nothing too hit-and-miss about having to find where a mobile office is and being able to get to within the hours of operations its there.
Nothing but a plan to keep sticking it to the Black voters of Alabama.
c.e.lawson said:
To paraphrase Daniela's eloquence - This is not a thing.
Parroting or paraphrasing a one-liner is not eloquence. Sniffing something is "not a thing" when it clearly
is for the African-American voters of Alabama is suggestive of the haves telling the have-nots they need to suck it up and get over it.
Someone who has posted 11 times in a thread cannot credibly claim "this is not a thing."
You know what IS a thing? My fellow non-resident/citizen Hispanics (among other races) who risk themselves ever day to drive their kids to school and drive to work because they can't get a driver's license or ID. Period. Zero. No chance since the laws changed a couple of years ago. That's nationwide for the most part, by the way, not exclusive to one state.
That's awful, but my fellow resident African-Americans risked their lives and lost them trying to vote and the Constitution had to be amended before they could even being to enjoy the rights Whites take for granted.
My fellow resident African-Americans had to suffer through various indignities to vote including literacy tests. Only through decades of protest, agitation, and demanding change which came slowly, painfully and bloodily over decades did it ever come. Now there are those who would like to rewind the clock back to the days when the Black voter was more rumor than fact.
I'm not going to sit here and stay meek and quiet because someone tells me "this is not a thing."
This is America. Nobody gives you anything if you only sit around and cry about it. You gotta get up and shake the tree. If they try to take away what you fought to get, you may not have to just shake the tree. You might have to chop it down.
DanielaTorre said:
I understand your anger, but you're reading too much into this.
Please don't tell me you understand my anger after you've told me this isn't a thing after I have documented in detail why it is. You don't understand my anger at all.
Perhaps I am reading too much into this. However, is it conceivable you aren't reading enough into this?
DanielaTorre said:
The only one being condescending is you, sir. Don't be condescending when you're sharing your opinions. It's often taken as provocation such as this instance.
I thought the exact same thing when I read, "
this is not a thing." That was extremely provocative in its condescension.