In case you didn't notice, that second map is zoomed out significantly compared to the first one. Wonder who is hurt more by having to drive completely across town to obtain valid id for voting? Certainly it isn't a problem for folks who already have a valid driver's license and vehicle, so who does that leave?
What is this, the 19th century? Is it such an epic hurdle to catch a ride or take a bus? Minorities are allowed on buses, trust me, and not everyone pays. I paid $2.50 to travel between Raleigh and Durham in high school, this is in-city.
In fact, my daily bicycle ride to my last high school was longer than the distance between those stations, so cry me a fricken river!
Maybe that person who carpools to multiple jobs so they have no time, has no bike or car of their own, no one in their local community willing to drive them (church especially), and is incapable of walking a couple of hours, might need to call the local young Democrats and ask for a freakin lift.
Just from my location I'd have to go two or more miles to the nearest bus station, minimum, catch a bus, make at least four transfers, and catch one of the two runs around the loop that gets within half a mile of the closest dmv while it is open, about 8 miles away, actually about 12~15 miles with good luck.
Now, since I would prefer to not have to go another two miles to the next nearest bus stop I'd have to catch the early loop, get to the dmv, get everything taken care of there, and make it back within 2 hours for the next run, or wait another 2 hours for the one after that, go another 12~15 miles back on the buses, and hoof it back home.
Bonus if you're a woman, cause let's be frank: that isn't a good part of town, I mean, the joke goes "what's the bad part of Memphis called?" 'Memphis!' but the airport area isn't somewhere that I, as a healthy young man, would just go wandering around alone on a lark.
That isn't really the point though, nor is the ethnicity of the Memphis and Raleigh-Durham areas.
The point is: there is no good reason to disallow the library photo ID in favor of the dmv issued ones alone.
I could go get a library photo ID
easily, I would have to plan my whole day around trying to get a tn photo ID.
I could stay in my neighborhood to get one, or go to one of several other nearby areas to reach a library, I would have to decide between heading towards a dangerous part of town all day, or trying to plot out a route to one of the other three further away dmv offices to get the other.
Memphis specifically spent $60k on rolling out the library photo ID system to help poor and minority voters, fought in court when it was told it couldn't keep using them, and is still fighting to reinstate their use.
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