As usual, you have no idea what you're talking about. Go fuck your mother.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2...ma-may-gotten-even-difficult-black-residents/
...Secretary of State John Merrill, Alabama’s head elections official, waved off any concern that the decision to shutter offices in predominantly Black counties would lead to disenfranchisement. According to
AL.com, the satellite offices managed roughly 5 percent of driver’s license transactions. Alabamans can get photo ID cards at the county Board of Registrars office, he
said.
“Every county has a Board of Registrars,” said Merrill,
AL.com reported.
Merrill also touted Alabama’s mobile voter ID vans, saying that by October 31 the mobile vans will have visited every county in Alabama. He also said that the mobile vans would revisit counties, if requested. “If they can’t go to the board of registrars, we’ll bring a mobile crew down there,” Merrill said.
But how many people even know that they can get a photo ID card at the registrar’s office?
“People may not know they can go to a registrar’s office,” Susan Watson told me. “I found out reading the [AL.com] article. I didn’t know that.”
Although the secretary of state published a
voter ID guide in March 2014, the fact that Watson was unaware voters could obtain photo ID at the Board of Registrars office raises questions about how effective Alabama has been in getting the word out about how Alabamans can obtain the requisite identification.
Watson also doesn’t think the mobile ID vans are sufficient. “It still puts a burden on people to take time off work and research and find out when they’re going to be there,” said Watson. “They don’t exactly make it easy.”
I, for one, had some trouble finding van visit schedules online. I was only able to find
one source; it looks each county was visited once, and most times the visit didn’t occur over a weekend.
In any event, irrespective of whether or not the closures will further disenfranchise marginalized groups, the closures disproportionately burden already-burdened people, according to Watson. “If there’s a board of registrars open in the county they’re in, they can go there to get a photo ID card, but they sure can’t get a driver’s license there. They’ll still have to go to another county and take time off work,” in addition to paying potential transit costs the trip might entail, Watson said.