{"id":128196,"date":"2015-10-01T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/first-require-ids-to-vote-then-close-drivers-license-offices-check.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T11:04:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T18:04:05","slug":"first-require-ids-to-vote-then-close-drivers-license-offices-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/first-require-ids-to-vote-then-close-drivers-license-offices-check.html","title":{"rendered":"First require IDs to vote, then close drivers license offices &#8230; check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to posit that a fundamental right &#8212; voting &#8212; requires some sort of positive ID, then you are morally required to make rightfully obtaining that ID as easy as possible.<\/p>\n<p>This sort of looks (and smells) like anything but.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Susan Stone<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/s.al.com\/mZBEyAi'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/dgoOdJlvifDQfL59SFTQL42tZInaZmOSo2jc3cMKYdDPMIawaizT8nsbNdfRZX2tObWZKE9x81WBAbx4m9Wdfyd6ucoGaPjPR8N-tjUSMU3Z0A8yx83l9qbTfSAobvQ7PuUp6xQ2IT7n2fM4IFwrQt28iECe6sc74Yo5npVgcxg=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/s.al.com\/mZBEyAi'>Voter ID and driver&#8217;s license office closures black-out Alabama&#8217;s Black Belt<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nTwenty-nine counties now have no place where you can get a driver&#8217;s license.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/V9o49joMPF6'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are going to posit that a fundamental right &#8212; voting &#8212; requires some sort of positive ID, then you are morally required to make rightfully obtaining that ID as easy as possible. This sort of looks (and smells) like anything but. Originally shared by +Susan Stone: Voter ID and driver&#8217;s license office closures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/first-require-ids-to-vote-then-close-drivers-license-offices-check.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;First require IDs to vote, then close drivers license offices &#8230; check&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,347],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-voting-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3100,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/08\/not_my_best_pic.html","url_meta":{"origin":128196,"position":0},"title":"Not my best picture","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Aug-02 5:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Cool stuff: DriversLicenseSearch.com, which, via the National Drivers License Records Bureau, brings you their \"online database of over 220 million U.S. driver's license photos and driver's license information currently on...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hi-Tech&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hi-Tech","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/hi-tech"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/08\/so-last-years-equifax-breach-was-even-more-awful-than-previously-revealed.html","url_meta":{"origin":128196,"position":1},"title":"So last year&#8217;s Equifax breach was even more awful than previously revealed","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-May-18 6:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Largely because Equifax didn't reveal a lot of the details because state laws didn't require them to. 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