Posted on Sep 17, 2021
Court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law as racially biased
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A panel of state judges in North Carolina struck down a voter ID law Friday, saying the law made it more difficult for Black voters to cast ballots.
The judges said in their 211-page ruling that while the motivations behind the GOP-supported law were fueled largely by partisan considerations and not racial animus, the fact that they targeted Black voters still made the law discriminatory.
“In reaching this conclusion, we do not find that any member of the General Assembly who voted in favor of [the law] harbors any racial animus or hatred towards African American voters, but rather ... that the Republican majority ‘target[ed] voters who, based on race, were unlikely to vote for the majority party. Even if done for partisan ends, that constitute[s] racial discrimination,’” the judges ruled.
The judges said in their 211-page ruling that while the motivations behind the GOP-supported law were fueled largely by partisan considerations and not racial animus, the fact that they targeted Black voters still made the law discriminatory.
“In reaching this conclusion, we do not find that any member of the General Assembly who voted in favor of [the law] harbors any racial animus or hatred towards African American voters, but rather ... that the Republican majority ‘target[ed] voters who, based on race, were unlikely to vote for the majority party. Even if done for partisan ends, that constitute[s] racial discrimination,’” the judges ruled.
Court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law as racially biased
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From article: “A federal appeals court shot down parts of a 2013 North Carolina law that had similar provisions as the 2018 law, saying the earlier gambit had been written in with “almost surgical precision” to target Black voters...Other, less restrictive voter ID laws would have sufficed to achieve the legitimate nonracial purposes of implementing the constitutional amendment requiring voter ID, deterring fraud, or enhancing voter confidence,” the judges ruled.
Issue is not that voter ID overall was bad, but that the specific NC law appeared to target voters by race based on how it was written
Issue is not that voter ID overall was bad, but that the specific NC law appeared to target voters by race based on how it was written
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