The News & Observer is reporting Monday night that a U.S. district judge has upheld North Carolina’s voter ID law passed in 2013.
BREAKING: All claims against 2013 NC voter ID law dismissed by US district judge https://t.co/8PTeosyvNs #ncga #ncpol #voterid
— Eric Frederick (@Eric_Frederick) April 26, 2016
NEW: Federal judge upholds North Carolina election law requiring voters to show photo ID. https://t.co/MUQHUfQnKL pic.twitter.com/sSDXVVGL2p
— Nightline (@Nightline) April 26, 2016
https://twitter.com/ChrisBrookACLU/status/724753835105865728
U.S. District Judge Thomas Schroeder ruled that a 2013 law that cut the number of days people could vote early, eliminated same-day registration and voting and prohibited people from casting a ballot outside their precinct will stand.
A sweeping decision, upholding all R' s recent changes to NC's elections incl. no same day reg, voter id, no pre-reg https://t.co/sJOn0Qdckf
— Michael McDonald (@ElectProject) April 26, 2016
The 485-page ruling can be viewed and downloaded as a PDF from WRAL’s website.
Let's end discrimination in voting. This ruling is bad. Wrong, wrong….#NorthCarolina needs to turn a new page. https://t.co/DySJ1OQKzL
— Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) April 26, 2016
@donnabrazile @ElectProject So very wrong!
— Felicia Pugh (@IAmFeliciaP) April 26, 2016
@donnabrazile @ElectProject There goes the Democrat mantra of "vote early and often"
— ScottyMac (@scottymac42) April 26, 2016
So North Carolina will continue to look like this?
Welcome 2 Republicans #VoterSupression. Students R Being Rejected From Polls B/c Of North Carolina’s Voter ID Law https://t.co/79m28cBBYU
— vlh (@coton_luver) March 15, 2016
In March, liberal site Think Progress noted that minorities were hardest hit by the voter ID law: “Early voting data has shown that while black voters make up 22 percent of the state’s voting population, they account for 26 percent of those who said they had a reasonable impediment for not having an acceptable ID.”