'The Voter Suppression Trail'

[pppolitics]

"Voter Suppression Trail" is a game that accurately depicts how tough it is to vote in the face of voter ID and other laws.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/11/01/opinion/voting-suppression-videogame.html

[Bismarck]

There is nobody in Indiana who doesn't have an ID. It would be impossible to live your life without one. Also our state even invested in an app to help voters find their polling locations. Most counties have early vote centers all over the place. Voter suppression is a myth.

[Yank2133]

There is nobody in Indiana who doesn't have an ID. It would be impossible to live your life without one. Also our state even invested in an app to help voters find their polling locations. Most counties have early vote centers all over the place. Voter suppression is a myth.

Tell that to North Carolina.

[SirMuxALot]

Voter suppression is a myth.

Yes, what is actually being objected to is the possibility that illegal votes are being suppressed.

[Mallow]

There is nobody in Indiana who doesn't have an ID. It would be impossible to live your life without one. Also our state even invested in an app to help voters find their polling locations. Most counties have early vote centers all over the place. Voter suppression is a myth.

Something in your statement is a myth, but it's not voter suppression:
http://www.politifact.com/texas/statements/2012/jul/11/eric-holder/eric-holder-says-recent-studies-show-25-percent-af/

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[ApatheticAustrian]

how about just registering everyone like in europe, making voting as easy and available as possible, making sure all groups can reach their voting ID as easy and inexpensive in ANY state as possible...?

too easy, i know.

[Maxwell]

Alabama exemplifies the problem with voter ID - After they went and put together a voter ID law, they then closed down a bunch of DMV's, making it substantially harder FOR people to get ID's. I suspect that's the goal - make every election a mid-term election.

[SirMuxALot]

Alabama exemplifies the problem with voter ID - After they went and put together a voter ID law, they then closed down a bunch of DMV's, making it substantially harder FOR people to get ID's. I suspect that's the goal - make every election a mid-term election.

Yet your paragraph contains two huge glaring omissions:

1. Alabama made voter IDs completely free.  No charge to get one whatsoever.

2. You can obtain them at places other than DMVs.  You can get them at the SoS office, and each county's Board of Registrar's Office.  EVERY COUNTY THAT HAD THEIR DMV OFFICE CLOSED HAS A BOARD OF REGISTRAR'S OFFICE.

It astonishes me how every supposed "journalism" piece about this (including NY Times) completely omits those facts.