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Alabama DMV closings draw call for federal voting rights probe

Alabama DMV closings draw call for federal voting rights probe

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. · Monday, October 5th 2015 at 9:33PM · 1542 views
An Alabama congresswoman has formally asked the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the state’s shuttering of driver’s license offices in several heavily black counties, warning that the closures throw up another obstacle to voting. The call for a federal probe comes as opposition to the state’s decision, announced last Wednesday, continues to mount. “These closures will potentially disenfranchise Alabama’s poor, elderly, disabled, and black communities,” wrote Rep. Terri Sewell in a letter sent Monday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. “To restrict the ability of any citizen to vote is an assault on the rights of all Americans to equally participate in the electoral process.”

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Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Monday, October 5th 2015 at 9:36PM

Sewell, a Democrat whose district includes Selma, the historical birthplace of the push for African-American voting rights, called for “a full and thorough investigation by DoJ.”

This looks right Jim Crow is back! Read More: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/alabama-dmv-clo...

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Wednesday, October 7th 2015 at 6:11PM

This is just one reason why it is important to get out and vote before your rights are taken away from you. Look at what is happening in Alabama because of the supreme courts action by stripping away the civils rights voting bill of 1964.

Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Thursday, October 8th 2015 at 11:36AM

Make sure that you are registered to vote because Jim Crow is not dead.



Dea. Ron Gray Sr. Sunday, October 25th 2015 at 10:48AM

A report by the liberal Center for American Progress found that the ID law affected 250,000-500,000 Alabamans, disproportionately African-American, in last year’s midterm and gubernatorial elections.

That is a lot of Black Voters which takes away the right to vote as taxpayers in the state of Alabama.

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