Citizens, however, were now going to have to run an obstacle course to acquire the appropriate identification to vote. Alabama, for example, refused to accept public housing ID, although this clearly is government-issued and, as the LDF explained, “for many people of color [it] is their only form of ID.”88 This refusal is despite—or, rather, because of—the racialized poverty that has made Alabama one of the poorest states in the nation. Nearly 34 percent of Hispanics and 31 percent of blacks live below the poverty line, compared with 14 percent of whites in the state. Moreover, in nine of the
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