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North Carolinas Monster Voter Suppression Law Could Swing The Electionby Alice Ollstein at Think Progress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2016/04/26/3772699/nc-voter-suppression-2/
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An appointee of President George W. Bush, Judge Schroeder argued in a nearly 500-page ruling that eliminating same-day voter registration, cutting a full week of early voting, barring voters from casting a ballot outside their home precinct, ending straight-ticket voting, and scrapping a program to pre-register high school students who would turn 18 by Election Day does not overly burden voters of color. He also upheld the states strict voter ID requirement, which residents argued was passed with the intention of suppressing African American votes.
North Carolina voters of color and the groups supporting them said Tuesday that they will immediately appeal, in hopes of reversing the damage before the general election in November.
We know that people, particularly African Americans and students, have been disenfranchised by this monster voter suppression law, said Dr. William Barber, president of the North Carolina NAACP. Yet the court upheld the most sweeping retrogressive voter suppression that we have seen since the 19th century and Jim Crow. Their decision is wrong.
A return to Jim Crow elections
This November will be the first election in more than 50 years without a functioning federal Voting Rights Act.
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appal_jack
(3,813 posts)The appeal is essential. k&r,
-app
blm
(113,063 posts)should try living in NC or any swing state where REAL shit like this was passed.
mopinko
(70,120 posts)seems to me that anyone's vote that is stolen or suppressed should be a fucking crime.
realize that this is an artifact of the law, and its uses, but jeebus. when are we gonna take this seriously?
Initech
(100,080 posts)And then answer that question.
mopinko
(70,120 posts)minority voting rights are protected. clearly they do.
but i am saying that it only makes it harder to protect everyone's rights if there has to be some evidence of disparate impact. everybody's damn vote should be protected.
the intent is to set the bar higher, but it seems like it is just allowing them to set the bar lower.
northernsouthern
(1,511 posts)Well it is nice to see people finally care about the voter restrictions...then I noticed the "before the general election" and I was like that's right just like Arizona too late to matter for us Bernie Supporters.
North Carolina voters of color and the groups supporting them said Tuesday that they will immediately appeal, in hopes of reversing the damage before the general election in November.