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In 2011, Alabama passed a voter ID law that required voters to provide a government issued state ID in order to vote in elections.
Critics charged that the law would make it disproportionately difficult for poor voters and African-American voters in the state to vote. Republicans brushed off those criticisms by suggesting that the voter ID law was instead designed to eliminate in-person voter fraud, despite the fact that in-person voter fraud is almost non-existent.However,
Alabama has announced that it is now closing 31 driver's license bureaus throughout the state, leaving 29 of the state's counties without an office where voters can easily obtain a state-issued driver's license. Not coincidentally, the impact of closures will be disproportionately felt by low income voters. Also unsurprisingly, offices targeted for closure are heavily concentrated in predominately African-American, Democratic leaning counties.
Driver's license bureaus will be closed in heavily African-American and strongly Democratic, rural Black Belt counties. Barack Obama's seven best counties in Alabama (Greene, Macon, Sumter, Lowndes, Bullock, Perry and Wilcox) all have African-American populations above 68 percent. In each of those counties, Barack Obama garnered
at least 74 percent of the vote in 2012. All seven of those mostly black, strongly Democratic, counties will lose their driver's license bureau, making it difficult for voters to obtain a state-issued ID.
Comment: The U.S. population is following the leaders of the country in their propensity to use violence and weapons to achieve their ends. When the authorities show little to no respect for life, the people will follow suit.