Posted on 09/30/2013 11:33:22 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
The Justice Department sued North Carolina Monday in the latest salvo in the Obama administration's ongoing battle against restrictive state voting regulations.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina, seeks to topple provisions of a new statute that reduce early voting access and require North Carolinians to show photo identification before they are allowed to vote.
"The state legislature took extremely aggressive steps to curtail the voting rights of African-Americans," Attorney General Eric Holder said during a news conference at the agency's headquarters.
In the last election cycle, more than 70 percent of black voters in North Carolina cast their ballots during the early voting period, Holder said.
Proponents of such laws contend they are needed to prevent voter fraud, an assertion Holder brushed off as "not real."
"We will show that these are discriminatory, both in intent and impact," Holder said.
The DOJ is also asking the court to reinstate a requirement that the agency sign off on any changes to election procedures in North Carolina and other states with histories of discrimination.
The lawsuit follows a major defeat this summer in the administration's efforts.
In June, a divided Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act's provision requiring states to obtain federal preclearance before tightening voting rules.
Officials from the North Carolina attorney general's office could not immediately be reached for comment.
The real (unspoken) reason is because they’re afraid they’ll be run for outstanding warrants.
Bingo!
It's obvious, though, that these state restrictions are not enforced in heavily black precincts.
You’d be lucky if YOU were in fewer than 40 pieces.
This kind of reporting will backfire. We used to have dangerously lax voting regulations. Now we have simple common sense voting laws. How terrible!
Wow, if NPR (the government radio station) won’t cover for you who will?
The law meets the 5 requirements of good law. It won’t be overturned. This is likely a simple attempt at an injunction through Nov. 2014.
If you can’t destroy the TEA Party with one arm of the government, try another.
Right on target there, 1010.
Brilliant move, Eric WithHolder.. Below the radar of 0bamacare deliberations and looming gov’t shutdown, ya gotta sue another State! RACIST VOTER-FRAUD-ENABLING A-HOLE.
“In the last election cycle, more than 70 percent of black voters in North Carolina cast their ballots during the early voting period, Holder said.”
If true, that is startling, and begs some questions:
1) To what extent were the other 30% of “black” voters the same individuals who already voted early?
2) In the last election cycle in NC, what percentage of “white” voters voted early? [Holder seems to imply that blacks voted early in significantly higher percentages than others, since he expects disparate impact on blacks if less early voting occurs in the future.]
3) If “blacks” in NC actually did vote early at significantly higher rates than “whites”, why?
4) What percentages of black and white registered voters in NC lack photo id’s, and why?
The Democrats have perpetrated a national scheme to vote multiple times, to cast votes in other peoples’ names, to register and vote in multiple states, and to cast votes for non-citizens, and non compos mentis individuals without their cognizance. Holder’s lawsuits should be turned around to expose what has been going on.
Here and there. Thanks.
However, short-term, I see one of two things happening, neither of which I like much. NC has been very nearly a 50-50 split at the national level, so either....
1) The state remains a 50-50 split, which shows that there wasn't much fraud and Dems have made dramatic inroads into the electorate over the past 8-10 years. That's bad, IMO.
or 2) The state goes back to what it was before, 55-45 plus or minus a bit. That means fraud has cancelled out my vote for the past few elections.
Neither option makes me very excited.
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