Via Avedon's Sideshow, voter suppression under another name, not to mention large numbers of unlicensed drivers having accidents, and huge lines at the Alabama DMV's remaining offices, because did the legislators and bean counters really think that making it difficult to get a driver license would prevent people from driving in a largely rural state? (To those who believe that people who drive without a license tend to be more cautious to avoid police attention: Are you kidding?)
Also, possibly the schools or churches or local organizations or whoever with transportation might want to arrange to bus or otherwise transport people, preferably in batches, to the DMV offices that remain open, rather than wait for the outcome of the inevitable legal maneuverings that should be happening right now. (It could be a junior-to-senior rite of passage if high schools take it up.) Yes, the later the injunction (or whatever) happens, the less likely countermeasures can be brought into play, but there's probably a deadline on registering to vote, and why register if you lack ID to be able to vote?
In fact, I'm in favor of organizing efforts to thwart disenfranchisement. And I'm in favor of starting yesterday. State political groups should be helping their poorer and/or older constituents obtain documentation or duplicate documents in order to get what will be accepted as voter ID, or should be making that information available. Students could access that information through their schools, especially those attending out-of-home-state institutions.
To sort of quote Joe Hill: "Don't mourn. Organize."
Because those folks allegedly chewing their fingernails about voter fraud (you could put all the voter fraud committed in the last ten years, usually by those people "concerned" about voter fraud, onto the head of a pin and still have room for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball team to do the Lindy hop) are organized. And they don't mean us well.
This, by the way, has been a rant.
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