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Federal judge to block latest North Carolina voter ID mandate

[NBC] RALEIGH, N.C. ‐ Republican attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents.

A federal court announced that next week U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs will formally block a photo ID requirement scheduled to begin in 2020. Unless the upcoming preliminary injunction is successfully appealed, the requirement will be halted until a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and others is resolved.

Thursday's short written notice from the federal court in Winston-Salem previewed Biggs' order because state election officials were planning to expand efforts to educate voters about the ID law within days. Although the mandate would be carried out beginning with the March 3 primary, the requirement would actually start in just a few weeks with mail-in absentee ballot filers, who also would have to provide an ID copy.

The mandate identified several types of qualifying photo IDs and allowed people lacking one to get a free ID card or to fill out a form while voting explaining their "reasonable impediment" to obtaining one.

GOP leaders in charge of the legislature have been trying for most of the decade to advance voter ID, saying that more than 30 states require it and it builds confidence in elections. Data show voter impersonation is rare, however. The voting pool ‐ currently 6.8 million registered voters ‐ is critical in a closely divided presidential battleground state where statewide races are often competitive between the major parties.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-28 08:25|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Another Obama appointment, but you knew that.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-28 08:30|| 2019-12-28 08:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Judge. Tar. Feathers. Rail. Some assembly required...

Posted by Dave D. 2019-12-28 08:58|| 2019-12-28 08:58|| Front Page Top

#3 But your airline pilot, neusurgeon and police officers still need ID to enter secure facilities. You still need ID to get on a plane, drive or come into the courthouse. Oh, and to buy cigarettes if you don't look old enough

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-28 09:03|| 2019-12-28 09:03|| Front Page Top

#4 What about proof of where you live? Residency matters when voting yet we are just suppose to expect honesty from the general population while voting has been expanded from one day to several weeks.

Posted by Airandee 2019-12-28 09:08|| 2019-12-28 09:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Voting is too important to regulate. Orwell smiles knowingly.

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-12-28 09:41|| 2019-12-28 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 1) I had to produce ID to turn in my old cable box and get a new one. The lady in front of me was black and had to cough up an ID as well.

2) Now that the Feds are doing the Real ID thing (I had to produce a birth certificate to renew my driver's license), does that have any impact on this whole issue?

Posted by Raj 2019-12-28 09:48|| 2019-12-28 09:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Your registration and ID have been validated. Please proceed to table #2 and pick up your ballot:

Posted by Besoeker 2019-12-28 09:54|| 2019-12-28 09:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Voter ID requirements must be effectice; otherwise the Dems wouldn't oppose these requirements so strongly. Many Dems must not be legitimately be elected.

Posted by Hupert Johnson4504 2019-12-28 10:56|| 2019-12-28 10:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Voter ID harms the constitutional rights of undocumented Americans?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-12-28 11:01|| 2019-12-28 11:01|| Front Page Top

#10 That Grom, and it makes it easier to stuff the ballot box if we can't track who should vote.

Demoncrats have been playing this game for nearly a century and they have no intent of losing it now.

Posted by DarthVader 2019-12-28 11:11|| 2019-12-28 11:11|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 in Mexicalifornia. Yep. Last election. Next election.

Given that the federal government demands a pic id to board a plane, anyone suggesting it suppresses black and latino travel?

Real voter suppression is allowing unqualified people vote. See - MN Senate election where the margin was less than the number of unqualified felons voted

Posted by Procopius2k 2019-12-28 11:36|| 2019-12-28 11:36|| Front Page Top

#12 Appeal the thing, all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-12-28 14:15|| 2019-12-28 14:15|| Front Page Top

#13 They wouldn't squeal like stuck pigs every time voter ID is proposed if they weren't getting illegal aliens to vote for them.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-12-28 15:38|| 2019-12-28 15:38|| Front Page Top

#14 #13 They wouldn't squeal like stuck pigs if they weren't pigs.

Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-12-28 16:08|| 2019-12-28 16:08|| Front Page Top

#15 I had to show a driver's license when I checked into a hotel. I was going to ask the clerk if that was racist. He was black, so I refrained.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-12-28 16:26|| 2019-12-28 16:26|| Front Page Top

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