Justice
How Alabama's Shady Governor Cultivated a Culture of Disenfranchisement
The downfall of Governor Robert Bentley reveals that thwarting voting rights is just part of the state’s accepted electoral landscape.
When Alabama announced it was closing 31 DMV offices in September 2015, at least one observer in the state suspected that it wasn’t about saving money. “There’s something bigger happening here,” wrote AL.com columnist Kyle Whitmire at the time.
Now we know the truth: It was political, and it was racist.