New North Carolina Voter ID Law Immediately Challenged by Voters

https://www.southerncoalition.org/new-north-carolina-voter-id-law-immediately-challenged-voters/

New North Carolina Voter ID Law Immediately Challenged by Voters

December 19, 2018/in Press Clipping, Press Release, Recent News, Voting Rights /by Dustin Chicurel-Bayard
Six voters challenging the state’s new photo ID requirements filed a lawsuit minutes after the regulations became law. The complaint was filed in Wake County Superior Court along with a motion requesting a preliminary injunction, asking the court to halt the implementation of the law until the case can be heard in court. State lawmakers overrode Governor Cooper’s veto of S 824, Implementation of Voter ID Constitutional Amendment, on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 19, 2018, as part of a lame-duck legislative session in which several members who lost re-election voted in favor of the override.

The full complaint and the motion for preliminary injunction can be at https://www.southerncoalition.org/voterid/

“The North Carolina Constitution provides numerous and inviolable protections for the fundamental right to vote of all its citizens,” Allison Riggs, senior voting rights attorney for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. “Just because the North Carolina Constitution now authorizes, with exceptions, the presentation of a picture ID when voting does not mean those other longstanding protections can be ignored or violated.”

According to the lawsuit, the new law violates multiple provisions of the North Carolina Constitution by:

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