North Carolina tries to keep discriminatory voting laws

North Carolina isn't letting new court rulings stop it from making voting harder in the state this year. In July, an appeals court struck down the state's voter ID law and its cuts in early voting.

A court found North Carolina specifically gathered information on what avenues more minority voters use, and then eliminated those avenues or created other roadblocks. There's no hedging here — North Carolina's voting laws are racially discriminatory.

But the state is still trying to hang on to those laws. In an email, the head of North Carolina's GOP called on election boards to reduce voting hours and get rid of Sunday voting, moves that seem to target the same groups as the voter ID laws.

Gov. Pat McCrory also asked the Supreme Court for a stay on that July ruling because he believes it "creates confusion among voters and poll workers and it disregards our successful rollout of voter ID in the 2016 primary elections." He also called for seven fewer days of early voting.

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