North Carolina Republicans renew voter suppression efforts that were struck down by Supreme Court
KIRA LERNER at Think Progress
https://thinkprogress.org/north-carolina-gop-advances-new-voter-id-law-after-cutting-saturday-voting-7a426380e8af/
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In 2013, just weeks after the Supreme Court gutted the landmark Voting Rights Act, North Carolina passed one of the worst voter suppression laws in the country. As part of a long list of new requirements, the law forced voters to show one of a short list of acceptable forms of photo identification to cast a ballot.
That law was overturned by the Supreme Court, which found last year that it targeted “African-Americans with almost surgical precision.”
But North Carolina’s Republican Party was not dissuaded. On Monday, the five-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision, the state general assembly voted 74-44 to move forward with a renewed voter ID bill that could impose exactly the same restrictions on the state’s voters.
“We’ve been down this path before,” Bob Phillips, executive director of Common Cause North Carolina, told ThinkProgress.
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