Discussion: Alabama Sued Over Photo ID Law After Mass DMV Closures

system1 · December 2, 2015, 6:03pm

Discussion for article #243351

bigbraxstone · December 2, 2015, 6:51pm

All of this could have been avoided had the ‘Activist Five’ conservatives on the Supreme Court not tampered with the Voting Rights Act!

richardinjax · December 2, 2015, 7:13pm

OK lets start a flame war. The bit says “a paltry number of folks have obtained the free ID’s”
Yup. Alabama is making it hard to get the ID for the reasons cited. It is not…and cannot make it impossible to get them. I don’t see what the NAACP is really after. OK you can fix Alabama’s obvious vote rigging but if Blacks are not sufficiently motivated to vote by being manipulated…if that does not piss them off enough to find the energy to vote…just what the hell do they think is the good in this? OK…open the DMV’s. No ones going to get the ID and most, even if they have ID aren’t going to vote. Black’s in the South do not vote. They never will.

richardinjax · December 2, 2015, 7:16pm

Bull. The problem existed long before that. It never mattered in the Deep South. Blacks don’t vote here. You can hand out those ID’s on every street corner…they aren’t going to vote. They don’t do that.

dnl · December 2, 2015, 8:12pm

If they are incapable of common ‘courtesy’ (kindness), sue the shit-out-of-them…

trnc · December 2, 2015, 8:23pm

What is your source for that? The turnout of black voters in bama was 28%, while they make up about 26% of the population. NC statistics show about the same proportion.

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/01000.html

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/37000.html

NBC site didn’t have the demographics for each state, so maybe the turnout was much worse in Ga, SC, etc. I just checked Fla - blacks underperformed by 4%, but whites underperformed by 10% (comparing vote % to population %).

gulliver · December 2, 2015, 8:28pm

Richard, I appreciate the hearty laugh you gave me today. I needed your fact-free satire on right wing trolling! Them darkies sho nuff is too lazy to vote! Ha ha ha ha! You sound just like Rush!

commiedearest · December 2, 2015, 9:10pm

Why the hell is the NAACP taking this on? Shouldn’t the DOJ be shutting Alabama down? What are they waiting for?

gulliver · December 2, 2015, 9:19pm

They’re waiting for a Sanders presidency.

paulw · December 2, 2015, 10:21pm

So I’m thinking maybe we should apply this “as long as you don’t actually make it impossible you haven’t infringed someone’s rights” logic to guns. Say, you have to bring all the paperwork proving that you’re a non-felon citizen to an office somewhere in your county that’s staffed by one clerk and open between 10-11 every weekday (except holidays). Once you’ve done that, you’re issued a ticket (no records kept, of course) that entitles you to go out and get a gun.

Second amendment types would be calling for armed insurrection over a law like that.