Alabama Closing DMV Offices In Spite Of Voter ID Laws
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Alabama is in the process of closing 45 of 49 driver’s license offices.
This will no doubt have a devastating effect on lower-income residents. Considering 18.7% of residents live at “poverty level” and another 8.4% at extreme poverty levels, it’s another blow that will surely leave more people behind. Can you imagine a single parent needing to take an entire day—or even two days—to travel to a driver’s license office and then wait all day for their turn to take the test?Perhaps most frightening about these closures is the effect it will have on voting in Alabama, where a conservative legislature passed a law in 2011 which requires a photo ID to vote.Alabama has already been on a steady decline (41% in November 2014) and these closures certainly won’t help to bring those numbers up.
Intended or not, these office closures and the strict voter ID law will have an effect on government, policy and even safety (more people like to drive without a proper license) for a long time to come.
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