The following is from an excerpt from the article, Despite Minority Turnout, Alabama Faces Scrutiny Over Voter ID Law, by Daniel Jackson of Courthouse News, a nationwide news service for lawyers and the news media based in Pasadena, California. Continue reading here:

Poll workers were said to be thrown off by recently married women carrying photo IDs with names that didn’t match the names on the voter rolls, or by voters who showed up with their hair cut and dyed differently than the picture on their ID. In Mobile, Ala., poll workers were telling voters that the address printed on their IDs had to match the address listed on the voter rolls – which is not a requirement under Alabama law, according to Deuel Ross, a civil rights attorney for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund… …While Jones won by about 30,000 votes, the Legal Defense Fund estimates 118,000 Alabama citizens are unable to vote because they don’t have the proper ID to do so.

The following is from an excerpt from a second article, Alabama’s Effort to Suppress Black Vote Couldn’t Prevent Huge Turnout, from the ACLU of Alabama. Continue reading here: