The smaller rural counties in Texas no longer have DPS offices for driver's licenses. Photo Voter ID the Poll Tax of my youth. It is hard to believe but there were some here at DU who thought photo ID was no big deal.

This is a transparent attempt to disenfranchise black voters.

Sending in the National Guard here to establish a democratic state would be more important than attempting to do so in Afghanistan.

and multiple civil suits that require the State to provide access to the documents which they have required for voting. Those documents should also be provided at no charge as they are now a requirement. I am in hopes that the ACLU is heading their way along with other organizations that could provide assistance with such legal actions.

Frankly the whole voter ID thing is absurd..... If you are a registered voter you should only have to provide the documents from the local election bureau.

on the voting card. How hard is that? I swear they act like its rocket science. That solves the entire problem. These politicians are paid a ton and can't figure this out? Absolutely ridiculous!!!!!

...suppress that minority vote any way possible.

Bastards

This is why federal photo ID's for voting should be available at any post office.

If they insist on requiring IDs, that is the solution. Of course you're putting all the post offices in jeopardy now. They'll be closing them to avoid issuing IDs.

with a drawbridge only for white people.

to build them.

Alabama is this week's ANUS OF THE UNIVERSE!

Strangely, no blue states ever seem to qualify.

Think of the damage they have done.

Earlier this year (2011), Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker became one of the many GOP governors to sign a law disenfranchising voters who do not have a photo ID — a law that disproportionately affects elderly voters, young voters, students, minorities and low-income voters. Having disenfranchised tens of thousands of Wisconsin voters, Walker is now making it harder for many of these voters to obtain the ID they need to regain their right to participate in the next election:

Gov. Scott Walker’s administration is working on finalizing a plan to close as many as 10 offices where people can obtain driver’s licenses in order to expand hours elsewhere and come into compliance with new requirements that voters show photo IDs at the polls.

One Democratic lawmaker said Friday it appeared the decisions were based on politics, with the department targeting offices for closure in Democratic areas and expanding hours for those in Republican districts. […] Rep. Andy Jorgensen, D-Fort Atkinson, called on the state Department of Transportation to reconsider its plants to close the Fort Atkinson DMV center. The department plans to expand by four hours a week the hours of a center about 30 minutes away in Watertown. […]

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/07/25/277592/walker-closes-dmvs/

This happened in many states to win in 2016! Dont Trust the guys that put the country in near depression and started war with Iraq costing two Trillion that could have fixed every road in USA Twice!