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VOTER ID LAWS
Frontline August 2016
A federal appeals court panel struck down North Carolina’s voter ID law on
Friday, overturning what’s considered the broadest piece of restrictive voting
legislation passed in recent years.
This is the second voter ID law to be overturned in as many weeks, while
another was weakened.
A separate federal appeals court struck down Texas’
last Wednesday, ruling it discriminated against black and Latino voters by
presenting an undue burden to accessing the ballot. A day earlier, a federal
judge curbed Wisconsin’s voter ID law, allowing voters who don’t have
identi±cation to cast a ballot if they swear to their identity.
North Carolina’s bill extended beyond the requirement of showing a state-
issued photo ID at the polls. The law cut early voting days and banned same-
day voter registration, eliminated straight-ticket voting, which allows voters
to choose all candidates from a single party by checking one box; and
introduced more restrictions on casting provisional ballots.
It prohibited pre-
registration for sixteen and seventeen-year-olds, who were previously
allowed to indicate their intent to vote when applying for a driver’s license.
The law also allowed for more poll watchers and made it easier to challenge
voters or their ballots.
On Friday, a three judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals in
Richmond, Va. found the law not only had a discriminatory e²ect, but also
that lawmakers did so on purpose.
Discrimination with “almost surgical precision”
In North Carolina, African-Americans vote overwhelmingly for Democrats.
They came out to vote in record numbers in 2008 and 2012 for President
Barack Obama, and helped to turn the traditionally Republican-leaning state
into a swing state.
North Carolina went to Obama in 2008, and was narrowly
won by Mitt Romney in 2012.
In 2013, in
Shelby v. Holder
, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a section
of the Voting Rights Act that required North Carolina and other states with a
history of voter discrimination to submit any voting-law changes to the
federal government for approval.
A day after the
Shelby
decision, Republican lawmakers in North
Carolina announced plans for an election law that, the federal appeals court

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has since found, restricted voting and registration in several ways, “all of
which disproportionately aFected African Americans.”
The court said that in crafting the law, the Republican-controlled general
assembly requested and received data on voters’ use of various voting
practices by race. It found that African American voters in North Carolina are
more likely to vote early, use same-day voter registration and straight-ticket
voting. They were also disproportionately less likely to have an ID, more
likely to cast a provisional ballot and take advantage of pre-registration.
Then, the court, said, lawmakers restricted all of these voting options, and
further narrowed the list of acceptable voter IDs. “… [W]ith race data in
hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative
photo IDs used by African Americans. As amended, the bill retained only the
kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess.”
The state oFered little justi±cation for the law, the court said. Those who
defended the law said they were doing so to prevent voter fraud. “Although
the new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision,
they constitute inapt remedies for the problems, assertedly justifying them
and, in fact, impose cures for problems that did not exist,” the court said.
It added: “We can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly
enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent.”
Although it struck down the law, the court stopped short of recommending
that North Carolina be pulled back under the Voting Rights Act’s pre-
clearance requirement.
“What the panel lays out is just the plainest reading of what transpired here,
which is that the legislature sought to target African-American voters to
further entrench themselves in the legislature,” said Chris Brooks, the legal
director of North Carolina’s American Civil Liberties Union. “That is the
chronology of what transpired here. That’s the only reasonable interpretation
of what transpired here.”
The North Carolina attorney general’s o²ce didn’t immediately comment on
the ruling.
With three months until Election Day, the state could still seek a hearing
from the full appeals court or the U.S. Supreme Court, although that’s less
likely since it currently only has eight justices. ³or now, North Carolina’s
election law no longer stands.

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Read the article and respond to the following:
1. An historical account of the issue in our country; e.g., who, what, when, where,
and how it was done
2. Name at least 2 other states that still deny people voting rights through
legislation;
3. Provide a critical analysis of your findings
4. Make sure you have references
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