Does a Four-Hour Wait to Get a Driver's License Sink the Voter ID Law?

I'll bet he didn't wait four hours.

Oooh, here's something interesting to watch. Over at the Tri-State Defender,

Linda Wallace has a story about how she stood in line for four hours

to get a driver's license the other day. As you recall, you now have to have a photo ID to vote in Tennessee.

As you can imagine, the thought that people have to stand in line for four hours one day to get to stand in line to vote on another day strikes some people as a ploy to dissuade people from bothering to vote. Steve Ross writes:

But that’s what Republicans want. They don’t want to fix government, they want to make it so difficult to interact with government that you lose hope and just sit down. When you do that, you lose, not them. Make no mistake, it was designed to happen this way, and they’re making sure it does, to the detriment of the will of all the people.

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