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VOTER ID LAWS
\nFrontline August 2016
\nA federal appeals court panel struck down North Carolina\u2019s voter ID law on
\nFriday, overturning what\u2019s considered the broadest piece of restrictive voting
\nlegislation passed in recent years.
\nThis is the second voter ID law to be overturned in as many weeks, while
\nanother was weakened.
\nA separate federal appeals court struck down Texas\u2019
\nlast Wednesday, ruling it discriminated against black and Latino voters by
\npresenting an undue burden to accessing the ballot. A day earlier, a federal
\njudge curbed Wisconsin\u2019s voter ID law, allowing voters who don\u2019t have
\nidenti\u00b1cation to cast a ballot if they swear to their identity.
\nNorth Carolina\u2019s bill extended beyond the requirement of showing a state-
\nissued photo ID at the polls. The law cut early voting days and banned same-
\nday voter registration, eliminated straight-ticket voting, which allows voters
\nto choose all candidates from a single party by checking one box; and
\nintroduced more restrictions on casting provisional ballots.
\nIt prohibited pre-
\nregistration for sixteen and seventeen-year-olds, who were previously
\nallowed to indicate their intent to vote when applying for a driver\u2019s license.
\nThe law also allowed for more poll watchers and made it easier to challenge
\nvoters or their ballots.
\nOn Friday, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals in
\nRichmond, Va. found the law not only had a discriminatory e\u00b2ect, but also
\nthat lawmakers did so on purpose.
\nDiscrimination with \u201calmost surgical precision\u201d
\nIn North Carolina, African-Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
\nThey came out to vote in record numbers in 2008 and 2012 for President
\nBarack Obama, and helped to turn the traditionally Republican-leaning state
\ninto a swing state.
\nNorth Carolina went to Obama in 2008, and was narrowly
\nwon by Mitt Romney in 2012.
\nIn 2013, in
\nShelby v. Holder
\n, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a section
\nof the Voting Rights Act that required North Carolina and other states with a
\nhistory of voter discrimination to submit any voting-law changes to the
\nfederal government for approval.
\nA day after the
\nShelby
\ndecision, Republican lawmakers in North
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has since found, restricted voting and registration in several ways, \u201call of
\nwhich disproportionately aFected African Americans.\u201d
\nThe court said that in crafting the law, the Republican-controlled general
\nassembly requested and received data on voters\u2019 use of various voting
\npractices by race. It found that African American voters in North Carolina are
\nmore likely to vote early, use same-day voter registration and straight-ticket
\nvoting. They were also disproportionately less likely to have an ID, more
\nlikely to cast a provisional ballot and take advantage of pre-registration.
\nThen, the court, said, lawmakers restricted all of these voting options, and
\nfurther narrowed the list of acceptable voter IDs. \u201c\u2026 [W]ith race data in
\nhand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative
\nphoto IDs used by African Americans. As amended, the bill retained only the
\nkinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess.\u201d
\nThe state oFered little justi\u00b1cation for the law, the court said. Those who
\ndefended the law said they were doing so to prevent voter fraud. \u201cAlthough
\nthe new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision,
\nthey constitute inapt remedies for the problems, assertedly justifying them
\nand, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist,\u201d the court said.
\nIt added: \u201cWe can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly
\nenacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent.\u201d
\nAlthough it struck down the law, the court stopped short of recommending
\nthat North Carolina be pulled back under the Voting Rights Act\u2019s pre-
\nclearance requirement.
\n\u201cWhat the panel lays out is just the plainest reading of what transpired here,
\nwhich is that the legislature sought to target African-American voters to
\nfurther entrench themselves in the legislature,\u201d said Chris Brooks, the legal
\ndirector of North Carolina\u2019s American Civil Liberties Union. \u201cThat is the
\nchronology of what transpired here. That\u2019s the only reasonable interpretation
\nof what transpired here.\u201d
\nThe North Carolina attorney general\u2019s o\u00b2ce didn\u2019t immediately comment on
\nthe ruling.
\nWith three months until Election Day, the state could still seek a hearing
\nfrom the full appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court, although that\u2019s less
\nlikely since it currently only has eight justices. \u00b3or now, North Carolina\u2019s
\nelection law no longer stands. <\/p>\n
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