Voter ID is back in North Carolina, and the justifications are as lame as eve

[G_j]

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore announced on Thursday his plan to put a photo voter identification requirement in the state constitution. The idea is as craven, political, misleading and ineffective as it was when a federal court ruled in 2016 that an N.C. photo ID provision and other voting restrictions targeted black voters “with almost surgical precision.”

Moore and his backers made that clear themselves Thursday, offering the same lame justifications that have been exposed as flimsy before.

First lame justification? Preventing fraud.

Moore called photo ID a “common sense measure to secure the integrity of our elections system.” He said it’s needed because “protecting our democracy should be one of lawmakers’ highest priorities.”

What a sham. For years, Republicans in North Carolina alleged that in-person fraudulent voting is rampant. Then, in April 2017, the state Board of Elections released the results of an extensive, objective audit of the 2016 election. It found that out of almost 4.8 million votes cast, one fraudulent vote probably would have been avoided with a photo voter ID law. One!


Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article212762209.html#storylink=cpy

[pandr32]

1. What fraud?

This is what we need to confront the asshats with every single time they pretend there was fraud and they need to protect against it.

[ProudLib72]

3. The Kobach fiasco proved you don't need to show evidence

You don't even need to make a coherent argument. Just so long as you plant a seed of doubt in the public's mind, you can get away with vote suppression... until someone takes you to court... but by then it's too late.

In the end it's just fear mongering, which the GOP excel at.

[pandr32]

4. We need to push back relentlessly

[MineralMan]

2. Voter suppression, pure and simple.

They're deathly afraid of letting black people vote, because they wouldn't vote for them. That's what it's all about. Time for a massive voter registration, identification assistance and GOTV. Vote the racist assholes out of office and never let them back in power.