RICHMOND, Va. — The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has overturned a law that requires NC voters to present valid identification, such as a driver’s license, in order to cast a ballot.
The ruling states that the law was enacted with discriminatory intent, citing statistics that African-American voters were disenfranchised by the law, being more likely to lack the proper identification required by the law. Further, the law would reduce votes for Democratic candidates, which African-Americans are statistically more likely to vote for.
The “smoking gun,” in the court’s opinion, came from the state’s justification that the statute hinged on race, and that “African Americans, who had overwhelmingly voted for Democrats, had too much access to the franchise.”
“Faced with this record, we can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the majority of the court.
“This ruling is a stinging rebuke of the state’s attempt to undermine African-American voter participation, which had surged over the last decade,” Dale Ho, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project stated in a press release. “It is a major victory for North Carolina voters and for voting rights.”
A federal judge dismissed lawsuits challenging the law in April, but the ruling was appealed.
The law, passed in 2013, also reduced early voting by seven days and ended same-day registration during early voting periods. It went into full effect this year and was utilized during the state primary elections on March 15.
I live in North Carolina and work for the Board of Elections at voting times. This is going to cause a big uproar.
“… work for the Board of Elections at voting times.”
WHY?????
Perpetuating/affirming the fraud!!!
Once again: Affirmative Action for the loss.