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Even with its strict voter-ID law, more than 30 offices in the state are set to close. |
This comment via Demos Facebook page spells it out loud and clear with links inserted for clarity:
Actually, this helps clarify why Alabama closed Driver's License offices in 31 counties. If getting your driver's license automatically triggers voter registration (provided that you are of age to vote), then Alabama doesn't want it to be easy to get a driver's license in counties with large African-American populations -- which is the case in the 31 counties where the offices were closed. That would enable more Black folks to vote. Shenanigans like this and many others are what prompted adoption of the Voting Rights Act in the first place. Will this cause the Supreme Court to revise its finding that the prior review provision of the VRA is no longer necessary? We shall see. If not, that will make it even clearer the the Court is now willing to connive in racist policies.In other news, Judge Myron Thompson has ordered the State of Alabama to resume funding of Planned Parenthood. Now let's see if Governor Bentley is going to comply or defy...
Bentley not backing down in court battle to strip Planned Parenthood’s Alabama funding http://t.co/Zwh3mFlmdD pic.twitter.com/xfQ0spd4Rh
— Yellowhammer (@yhn) September 23, 2015
2 comments:
The person that made the comment on the Demos Facebook page does not know what he is talking about. He said:
"then Alabama doesn't want it to be easy to get a driver's license in counties with large African-American populations -- which is the case in the 31 counties where the offices were closed"
Only 4 counties larger than 30,000 in population are losing their DMV and only one of them has a black population that is proportionally larger than the state's. That is Chambers county which has a population of 34,215 and is 58.8% White and 38.7% Black. The other 3 are Lauderdale (92,709, 86.4% White, 10.0% Black), Lawrence (34,339, 77.6% W, 11.5% B), and Franklin (31,704, 83.0% W, 3.9% B).
The reality is that 8 counties that are losing their DMVs have a Black population that is 50% or more of the county.
It is not even true that 31 counties are losing their DMVs. Only 28 counties are losing their DMVs. Half of them have a black population that is proportionally larger than the state's and half of them have a smaller than average black population. The population of the 28 counties affected nearly mirrors the state's population figures (68.0%/28.1% versus 68.5%/26.2%). But that's not reported because it doesn't fit the narrative that people want to sell.
None of the DMV's should be closing.
Alabama is in violation of the Voting Rights Act, specifically the Motor Voter Law.
The Voter ID Bill disenfranchises registered voters and should be repealed.
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