Of State John Merrill is fed up with claims by opponents of the state's voter ID law that tens of thousands of Alabama citizens are being denied the right to vote.
As opponents of voter ID laws continue to label them as a racist Republican policy, Merrill has stressed to people in his state that the purpose behind voter ID laws is very simple.
Merrill has been an enthusiastic defender of his state's voter ID law.
The secretary of state went head-to-head with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington earlier this year, countering her claim that Alabama's voter ID law prevented 188,000 people from voting.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit earlier this year brought by Greater Birmingham Ministries, the Alabama NAACP and other individual plaintiffs who claimed the state's voter ID law violated the Voting Rights Act, as well as the 14th and 15th Amendments of Constitution.
There's always been a healthy dose of skepticism among those who support voter ID about claims from Democrats that large numbers of voters would be shut out of casting a ballot because they didn't have proper ID, despite the fact those same so-called suppressed voters don't think twice about being required to show an ID to cash a check, seek treatment at a hospital, or even have a prescription filled.
Unless, of course, they realize that voter ID actually does prevent voter fraud.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/sec-of-state-shuts-up-anti-voter-id-dems-tells-those-needing-id-to-call-his-cell-phone/
As opponents of voter ID laws continue to label them as a racist Republican policy, Merrill has stressed to people in his state that the purpose behind voter ID laws is very simple.
Merrill has been an enthusiastic defender of his state's voter ID law.
The secretary of state went head-to-head with NAACP Legal Defense Fund head Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington earlier this year, countering her claim that Alabama's voter ID law prevented 188,000 people from voting.
A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit earlier this year brought by Greater Birmingham Ministries, the Alabama NAACP and other individual plaintiffs who claimed the state's voter ID law violated the Voting Rights Act, as well as the 14th and 15th Amendments of Constitution.
There's always been a healthy dose of skepticism among those who support voter ID about claims from Democrats that large numbers of voters would be shut out of casting a ballot because they didn't have proper ID, despite the fact those same so-called suppressed voters don't think twice about being required to show an ID to cash a check, seek treatment at a hospital, or even have a prescription filled.
Unless, of course, they realize that voter ID actually does prevent voter fraud.
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/sec-of-state-shuts-up-anti-voter-id-dems-tells-those-needing-id-to-call-his-cell-phone/
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