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The war on women voting in North Carolina
... The Durham, N.C.-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice -- among the parties that have filed lawsuits filed against the state's voter ID law and redistricting plan -- recently analyzed data from the state board of elections. SCSJ found that of the over 318,000 North Carolina voters who lack required ID, 63 percent are women. Looking at the state's own report on those without ID, SCSJ found that 43 percent of registered women voters without photo ID are women of color. African-American women, who made up just over 23 percent of North Carolina's registered female voters in 2012, represented 34 percent of women without ID ...
http://www.southernstudies.org/2013/11/the-war-on-women-voting-in-north-carolina.html