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npk

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31. Alabama has been closing DMV offices and State Trooper stations for more than a decade

Reply to NCjack (Reply #29)

Tue Aug 25, 2015, 08:41 PM

Aug 2015

The GOP have run the state into the ground by lowering property taxes in it's fluent cities for years. People think that has to do with stopping poor people and minorities from voting, it really has to do with Alabama paying the price for giving tax breaks to so many companies to relocate their businesses to the state, and not creating sustainable revenue paths to provide and pay for government services, and now there is little left to do.

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Despite strict voter ID laws, Alabama is in the process of closing 45 of 49 driver's license offices [View all] silvershadow Aug 2015 OP

smaller government comes at a price of huge amounts of your personal time wasted Johonny Aug 2015 #1

Worse than that, they know damn well it will result in fewer registered voters, particularly of silvershadow Aug 2015 #3

This is the aim of closing DMVs, of course. nt Nay Aug 2015 #19

Budget cuts...same fucking excuse used in every fascist Red State suppressing the vote....almost like it was a plan. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #2

It most certainly IS a plan, it is THE plan, and I mean that they have conspired ahead of time silvershadow Aug 2015 #5

Yes ! leftofcool Aug 2015 #7

Send in the national guard, open up all of those offices or maybe one of these randys1 Aug 2015 #4

Some of us do, Randys1, we really do. leftofcool Aug 2015 #6

I do. Jamastiene Aug 2015 #13

So budget cuts are causing the state to slowly drift into ruin. Rex Aug 2015 #8

Next they'll close all schools beyond seventh grade. lpbk2713 Aug 2015 #9

So what are the four wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods in the state? One knows that's where.... villager Aug 2015 #10

It sounds like they are gearing up to shut down voting altogether. Jamastiene Aug 2015 #11

Four offices in the whole state? That's crazy. BeeBee Aug 2015 #12

What the fuck? FOUR? progressoid Aug 2015 #14

Well whaddya know? Alabama still sucks! nt redwitch Aug 2015 #15

Pretty dumb move when they rejected all that Medicaid money, pnwmom Aug 2015 #16

of course they are. can't have people voting Liberal_in_LA Aug 2015 #17

Must be a coincidence. Stevepol Aug 2015 #18

Despite? KamaAina Aug 2015 #20

Online Services instead? One_Life_To_Give Aug 2015 #21

In Texas we have online renewal TBF Aug 2015 #23

The Texas case gives a road map to sue on the Albama voter id law Gothmog Aug 2015 #22

We only want "OUR" kind of people to vote Omaha Steve Aug 2015 #24

Probably privatizing. There are private MVD services in New Mexico. Dont call me Shirley Aug 2015 #25

A visual... Glassunion Aug 2015 #26

Take a close look at this. The house speaker behind this is fighting a criminal indictment and still Elwood P Dowd Aug 2015 #27

Not "despite" strict ID laws... gcomeau Aug 2015 #28

You can obtain a FREE Voter ID card in Alabama at any local government office building or online npk Aug 2015 #30

The Alabama state legislature is months late in producing a General Fund budget. NCjack Aug 2015 #29

Alabama has been closing DMV offices and State Trooper stations for more than a decade npk Aug 2015 #31

Agree. They have fine tuned racism to transition into fascism, with the result NCjack Aug 2015 #33

So glad that our Republikkkon SCOTUS struck down key parts of the Voting Rights Act TransitJohn Aug 2015 #32