In 2012 the NAACP appeared before the United Nations Human Rights Council to prove voter identification laws enacted by some U.S. states violated the human rights of minorities by disenfranchising voters. But Saudi Arabia sat on the human rights council who didn’t allow women to vote. I wondered if the Saudis thought the NAACP was redefining disenfranchisement.
Recently Alabama state officials announced it was closing thirty-one satellite driver license offices due to budget cuts. The state officials closed these specific offices because “the combined effort of the 31 part-time satellite locations … accounted for less than five percent of all the Alabama driver license transactions.”
This fiscal decision was criticized by civil rights advocates because in 2011 the state of Alabama required voters to have photo IDs as of 2014. (The state’s reason for the requirement was to prevent voter fraud and the stated issued free voter ID cards.)
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