Discussion: NAACP Legal Defense Fund: Alabama DMV Closures Likely Illegal

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My daughter was born in Alabama. We try to forget it.:grinning:

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Implements voter ID, then closes all places to get ID where heavy African-American population. You think they violated the voting rights act Justice Scalia?

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Get 'em!

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Good. There needs to be strong, coordinated push-back on this shyte.

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It seems so blatantly obvious what is happening here yet someone from Alabama yesterday commented that it was more of a budget issue and that these places are in rural Alabama where the offices were only open once a week, I don’t know if that is true and I cannot find those comments.

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In addition, the State strongly discourages people from even seeking out the voter ID card by notifying people that the cards can only be used for voting and forcing people who apply for the card to swear under the penalty of a felony conviction that they lack a driver’s license or any other ID.

Wow. I hadn’t picked up on this earlier. That really lets the cat out of the bag, and puts the lie to the official position that they’re bending over backwards to make it easy for people to get a suitable ID.

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I was quite interested to read (for the first time, I think) the detail that requires an applicant to swear they have no other source of ID when getting the state photo ID. I can see how this would lead to only a small number of people who have gone this route. I would wonder “What if I get the state ID, but then later want to get a driver’s license? Would I have to surrender the state ID? Or would it make me a felon to have both?”

I don’t live in Alabama, but this really seems onerous.

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I actually appreciate it when republicans go over the top like this. It would be even better if they would be fully honest and just start marching in white robes with pointy hats on.

Seriously, isn’t it refreshing to have an honest debate, rather than one where a chameleon is constantly pretending that they’re not what they blindingly obviously are?

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I’m sure that Scalito will say that this doesn’t violate the Voting Rights Act because the Act itself is wholly unconstitutional. Ergo, problem solved, from their point of view.

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It seemed that way to the folks that set it up too…

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Let them argue it’s all just because of budgeting concerns. I want to see a court decision that says a state’s failure to effectively tax and raise sufficient revenue such that it cannot provide the infrastructure and services necessary for the state’s residents to exercise their constitutional rights is, in fact, deliberately violating their constitutional rights by failing to tax and raise sufficient revenue.

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You’re a lucky man.

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Yea that “any other ID” clause is total bull shit if the only id you can have to vote with is a state issued one.

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Supposing I closed the supermarket in your area. Then cover that by suggesting you go to the Capitol and get groceries or every now and again Ill drive a mobile grocery into your area. Would everything be OK? No harm done?

That’s the position Alabama is taking.

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That was the previous way they were trying to restrict people getting ID’s but they decided to up the ante by closing them altogether!

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So was Harper Lee.

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…Dayum…The TeaPUbs thought that ‘voting’ laws had been repealed!!

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We all know it’s not a problem because John Roberts said racism is over. Totes.

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…it was more of a budget issue…

Another upside of the sopisticated political philosophy known as “NO NU TACKSUS.”