# I Pit the ID-demanding GOP vote-suppressors (Part 1)

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 12, 2012, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943 "2012-06-12T19:15:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-id-demanding-gop-vote-suppressors-part-1/624943/8242 "2015-10-01T19:34:34Z")

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[**eschereal** posts in the “malicious GOP behavior” thread:](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=18733880)

> [@We pit malicious GOP behavior!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-pit-malicious-gop-behavior/732869/46):
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> More gerrymandering, as it were.
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> [31 state licensing offices to be closed](http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/09/voter_id_and_drivers_license_o.html):  
> \*The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s website says their office at the Clarke County Courthouse is still open, but soon a lot of others nearby won’t be. On Wednesday, the agency announced that it would close 31 offices throughout the state, leaving 29 counties without a place where 16-year-olds can take a driver’s test …
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> and, of course,  
> \*In 2011, Alabama lawmakers approved the state’s voter ID law, making it illegal to vote in Alabama without a government-issued photo ID. For most folks, that’s a driver’s license. In those 29 counties you might be able to register at the courthouse, but you won’t be able to cast a ballot there unlessunless you have that ID…
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> Look at the list of counties now where you can’t get a driver’s license. There’s Choctaw, Sumter, Hale, Greene, Perry, Wilcox, Lowndes, Butler, Crenshaw, Macon, Bullock … Depending on which counties you count as being in Alabama’s Black Belt, either twelve or fifteen Black Belt counties soon won’t have a place to get a driver’s license.
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> Counties where some of the state’s poorest live… majority African-American. \*
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> Shitheads.
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> _(reposted from SRIotD, with less invective)_

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