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Federal judges recently struck down portions of voter ID laws in North Carolina and Wisconsin In the case of Wisconsin > “The evidence in this case casts doub
by serge2k 10y ago
Federal judges recently struck down portions of voter ID laws in North Carolina and Wisconsin
In the case of Wisconsin
> “The evidence in this case casts doubt on the notion that voter ID laws foster integrity and confidence,” Peterson wrote. “The Wisconsin experience demonstrates that a preoccupation with mostly phantom election fraud leads to real incidents of disenfranchisement, which undermine rather than enhance confidence in elections, particularly in minority communities. To put it bluntly, Wisconsin’s strict version of voter ID law is a cure worse than the disease.”
In North Carolina,
> “The new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision” and “impose cures for problems that did not exist,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the panel. “Thus the asserted justifications cannot and do not conceal the State’s true motivation.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-court-strikes-down-north-carolinas-voter-id-law/2016/07/29/810b5844-4f72-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-c...
In the case of North Carolina the representatives actually asked for information on how the proposed law would affect African American voters, then went ahead and did exactly the worst things.
Besides that
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-com...
- Jtsummers 10y agoNC is also terribly gerrymandered. It's a shame, I really liked living there. But, politically, it's a mess. A great state for higher education (Duke, the various UNCs, NCSU) and working in the tech industry (and others), but absolutely pitiful handling of K-12 education, voter and civil rights. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/19/gerrymandering-supreme-court-us-election-north-carolina https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/19/gerrymanderi...