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The program is working exactly as designed.
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the state had spent spent a “great deal of money” on educating voters about how to get proper IDs, and that the mobile van that makes the IDs will have visited all 67 counties by the end of the month.
See, they even created their very own bookmobile to drive around and act like they’re doing something… just what Cousin Bubba needed to get him off the couch. I bet they even ran 1" ads in each of the local newspapers three weeks before the IDmobile arrived downtown to let all the folks know it was there!
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Downtown? Probably spent more time at the Stonewall Jackson Rest Stop by Exit 13 off the Jefferson Davis Highway.
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"You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink,” Merrill told TPM, implying that black voters are a lot like dumb animals.
Are we to assume that public transportation doesn’t run by the county offices? If only a little more than 5000 people applied for the free ID in 2014 when the DMV offices were still open, that ain’t Jim Crow! These feckless potential voters are the children and grandchildren of those who stood up to violent and deadly de jure Jim Crow - the “real” Jim Crow - and beat it down!
Alabamans, your parents and grandparents organized strong and fought hard to get the right to vote. Show some respect to them; have the imagination and the gumption to get yourselves to the county offices for your free voter IDs, and then use them at the polls! For you, the price of liberty is a bus ride or car/van pool – pay it!
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Yeah, the ID is “free.” You may have to drive 200 miles to get it, paying for gas, taxi, or bus, but it’s “free.”
GOP needs to keep referring to blacks, Hispanics, and poor people as animals. It’s a big tent, doncha know.
Every Alabama county still has its clerk/registrar’s office. People won’t be traveling 200 miles or paying for gas. If public transportation is available, why pay for a taxi? If money would truly be a problem, let church/civil rights groups schedule weekly/monthly transportation runs to the county office. Cynicism is the strongest ally of the status quo.
If public transportation is available, why pay for a taxi?
Do you know something about Alabama I don’t?
Cynicism is the strongest ally of the status quo.
I don’t think it’s cynicism to recognize that for every barrier you put up, a certain percentage of people won’t be able to cross it. Think about your own life and the prioritizing of activities you’re forced to make. Now imagine that on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, voting falls very low. You’re not going to be late for work or spend your last $10 this month or take time away from your kids that you have little of in order to cross the state to register to vote.
I fully support registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, but realistically these efforts cannot totally overcome financial and geographic barriers. And the GOP knows this all too well.
I have a simple experiment. Disallow the driver’s license as a valid ID, so that every voter has to go get the free one. Then we’ll see right quick how fair and reasonable the state is being.