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WRAL.com
April 4, 2018
Poll taxes and literacy tests have given way to voter-ID laws, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, polling place closings, voter-roll purges, ... In striking down a remarkably harsh North Carolina law in 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found that lawmakers hadÃâà...
WTOP
April 4, 2018
Poll taxes and literacy tests have given way to voter-ID laws, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, polling place closings, voter-roll purges, ... In striking down a remarkably harsh North Carolina law in 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found that lawmakers hadÃâà...
The Independent Weekly
April 4, 2018
After all, while Wisconsin's draconian voter ID law may have helped throw that state to Donald Trump—one analysis found that as many as forty-five thousand people there were deterred from voting in a state Trump won by fewer than twenty-three thousand votes—North Carolina's similarly naked attemptsÃâà...
WRAL.com
April 4, 2018
Andy Taylor, professor of political science at North Carolina State University, said both sides are hiring armies of lawyers to fight their legal battles, ... Records show outside law firms charged them more than $3 million in 2017 for a variety of cases, including voter ID and transgender bathroom access.
New York Times
April 3, 2018
Poll taxes and literacy tests have given way to voter-ID laws, cutbacks to early voting and same-day registration, polling place closings, voter-roll purges, ... In striking down a remarkably harsh North Carolina law in 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit found that lawmakers hadÃâà...
News & Observer (blog)
March 23, 2018
But the headlines about conservative policies — such as HB2 that regulated transgender bathroom access and the voter ID law that aimed to end out-of-precinct voting and same-day registration during early voting, among other restrictions — do not reflect the true character of the North Carolina electorate.
Northwest Herald
March 8, 2018
The Justice Department during the Obama administration also sued North Carolina and Texas over their voter ID laws, and it sued Arizona over a law designed to crack down on illegal immigration. That case ultimately made it to the Supreme Court, which struck down portions of the law but let stand theÃâà...
Charlotte Observer
March 8, 2018
North Carolina's legislators have repeatedly crafted legislation aimed not at combatting voter fraud but at setting up obstacles to vote for constituencies that generally don't support Republicans. A federal appeals court found that the state's voter ID law was designed to “target African Americans with almostÃâà...
The Aggie
March 7, 2018
“Following the Court's decision in Shelby County, [North Carolina] rushed through, in what seemed to have been the heat of the night, an omnibus voting rights law that eliminated same-day registration, adopted a stricter voter ID requirement, limited voting hours, made it harder for young people to vote,Ãâà...
Harvard Political Review
March 7, 2018
For critics of voter ID laws, the Michigan crackdown represents a new development in a long legacy of disenfranchising minority voters. “It seems clear from the record in North Carolina and Texas that voter ID laws have been enacted with oftentimes discriminatory intent, particularly to suppress the votes ofÃâà...
Splinter (blog)
March 7, 2018
And researchers found that states with a strict voter ID law doubled and in some cases even tripled the racial turnout gaps between white and non-white voters. In North Carolina, federal courts have found that both the legislative and Congressional redistricting processes were marred by gerrymandering onÃâà...
pridepublishinggroup.com
February 15, 2018
Even the Supreme Court struck down voter ID laws in Texas and North Carolina, ruling that the states' ID laws were intentionally designed to stop African ... One of the most compelling studies was conducted by the Washington Post in the article 'Do Voter Identification Laws Suppress Minority Voting? Yes.
Afro American
February 7, 2018
Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, told the Commission that the litany of laws and policies adopted in states throughout the nation such as limiting early voting, laws requiring voter ID, inaccessible polling stations and non-posted voting hours, represented the newÃâà...
Amsterdam News
February 7, 2018
Federal courts have already struck down voter ID laws in Texas, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and North Dakota that discriminated against minorities. There are many other tactics that right wing forces have used to suppress voter turnout. The purging of voter rolls, felon disenfranchisement, and cutting backÃâà...
Florida Courier
December 31, 1999
It's one of many policies that are “creating a climate of discrimination,” Lieberman said, in the same vein as restrictive voter ID laws, the slashing of early voting in states like Florida and North Carolina, and the consolidation of polling places, all of which adversely affect communities of color. In North CarolinaÃâà...
TPM
December 31, 1999
Von Spakovsky made a name for himself serving in President George W. Bush's Justice Department, where he overrode career officials in green-lighting Georgia's voter ID law and a Texas redistricting plan. When Arizona — in an effort backed by Kobach — was trying to enforce its own proof-of-citizenshipÃâà...
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