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originally posted by: Spider879
a reply to: seeker1963
Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed. Every one.
www.al.com...
It stinks to high hell.
originally posted by: nwtrucker
a reply to: Spider879
Says you. I agree with the point made about photo ID as the alternative.
Considering the Democrat agenda of allowing illegals to vote despite the illegality of that act, it comes across as throwing stones in from a glass house......
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
I don't doubt you at all. And I appreciate those who showed the the other side of this issue. I'm going to wait and see where this goes, though. Because I honestly think this is part of the larger plan to deny voting rights to Democratic voters.
My first post was emotionally charged. Sometimes, I just can't believe how government officials treat the people they work for!
originally posted by: Benevolent Heretic
a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
I don't doubt you at all. And I appreciate those who showed the the other side of this issue. I'm going to wait and see where this goes, though. Because I honestly think this is part of the larger plan to deny voting rights to Democratic voters.
My first post was emotionally charged. Sometimes, I just can't believe how government officials treat the people they work for!
originally posted by: infolurker
a reply to: Spider879
Please stop this Non-sense. This is a DMV issue, not a voter ID issue.
All 67 counties in Alabama have a Board of Registrars that issue photo voter I.D. cards.
www.voteriders.org...
“The closure of 31 DMV offices will not leave citizens without a place to receive the required I.D. card to vote,” said Alabama’s Secretary of State John Merrill said in a statement Thursday. He pointed to the free state-issued voter ID cards that residents can apply for if they do no have any of the other approved photo IDs.
“All 67 counties in Alabama have a Board of Registrars that issue photo voter I.D. cards. If for some reason those citizens are not able to make it to the Board of Registrars, we'll bring our mobile I.D. van and crew to that county,"
yellowhammernews.com...
Drivers Licenses are just one of the many forms of identification accepted at Alabama’s polling places. The following, unexpired, unrevoked forms are acceptable as well: Nondriver ID, Alabama Photo Voter ID card, State Issued ID, Federal Issued ID, US Passport, Employee ID from the Federal Government, State of Alabama, County, Municipality, Board or other entity of Alabama, Student or employee ID from a public of private college or university in the State of Alabama, Military ID, or a Tribal ID.
Thanks for the new info, will see if it pans out , without out apologies I am sensitive about voter suppression and it is a real thing given our recent history with the supposed high incidence of voter fraud a complete non issue.
originally posted by: xuenchen
I think this story is a Democrat plot to smear Republicans.
If Democrats need to drive and vote, they can get an I.D. just like everybody else.
Why is it always "Democrats" who seem to be the "victims" with every issue?
originally posted by: xuenchen
a reply to: Spider879
knee-hits-jaw
what does NYC have to do with Alabama?
Those who should be most concerned are four new members -- Reps.-elect Joe Walsh, Bob Dold, Bobby Schilling and Adam Kinzinger -- and a member who just won his second term, Rep. Aaron Schock.
Walsh and Dold just won districts in the northern Chicago suburbs/exurbs near the Wisconsin border. And there's plenty of Democratic territory that can be added to both of their districts by drawing in parts of the Rep. Jan Schakowsky's (D) 9th district and some of the more Democratic areas of Rep.-elect Randy Hultgren's (R) 14th district.
Besides the maneuvering in the Chicago area, the main change will be the likely loss of a district somewhere in the state. This isn't a done deal yet (we'll find out Tuesday when reapportionment data is released by the Census Bureau -- an early Christmas present for political junkies!), but chances are reasonably good the state will drop from 19 districts to 18.
The axed district is expected to come out of the middle of the state, and that would hurt Schock the most, since his Peoria-based 18th district is the most centrally located.
Democrats could pretty easily run Schock out of a district by absorbing his district into the 17th to the west (soon to be held by Schilling), the 11th to the north (held by Kinzinger) and the 19th to the south (held by GOP Rep. John Shimkus).
Democrats could eliminate Schock's district and create a more friendly 17th by adding Democratic-leaning Peoria to the 17th and putting more GOP parts of the 17th and 18th into the 19th to the south, the 11th to the north and Rep. Tim Johnson's (R-Ill.) 15th district to the east. By doing that, two GOP districts suddenly morph into one Democratic-leaning district, while shoring up nearby Republicans.[b/]