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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Provision
NY Times ^ | July 29, 2016 | ALAN BLINDER and MICHAEL WINES

Posted on 07/29/2016 4:49:33 PM PDT by Innovative

A federal appeals court decisively struck down North Carolina’s voter identification law on Friday, saying its provisions deliberately “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision” in an effort to depress black turnout at the polls.

The sweeping decision upended voting procedures in a presidential-election battleground state barely three months before Election Day. It tossed out North Carolina’s requirement that voters present photo identification at the polls and restored voters’ ability to register on Election Day, to register before reaching the 18-year-old voting age, and to cast early ballots, provisions the law had fully or partially eliminated.

The court also restored a provision that ensured that the ballots of people who mistakenly voted at the wrong polling station were deemed valid

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: elections; voterfraud; voterid
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Of course, we don't need to make sure people voting are actually eligible and are the ones who are registered and are US citizens... (/sarc)
1 posted on 07/29/2016 4:49:33 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Enforce it at state level anyway.


2 posted on 07/29/2016 4:50:15 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Innovative

Balls in your court, Governors and AGs...are you going to acquiesce or tell these black robes to pound sand?


3 posted on 07/29/2016 4:50:56 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (TRUMP THAT BEYOTCH!)
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To: Innovative

Why can’t we just take a thumbprint of each voter?


4 posted on 07/29/2016 4:52:39 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Innovative

Wouldn’t it be easier just to eliminate state governments altogether? Then each state could be ruled by a federal judge.


5 posted on 07/29/2016 4:54:23 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Innovative

They don’t even hide it anymore....that statement is complete utter BS and nothing but liberal talking points.


6 posted on 07/29/2016 4:54:44 PM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: Innovative

In other words, blacks are fundamentally stupid, cannot use the banking system, drive cars, enter courthouses or fly anywhere.

Racist judge.


7 posted on 07/29/2016 4:55:19 PM PDT by onedoug
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The dems know Hillary is in deep trouble so they are doing everything they can to defraud the legitimate American voter....


8 posted on 07/29/2016 4:55:29 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Why can’t we just take a thumbprint of each voter?

THAT would do the trick.

9 posted on 07/29/2016 4:57:04 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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Just saw Hillary's America movie in a sold out matinee in NC. Unfortunately the folks that need to see it were not in attendance.
10 posted on 07/29/2016 4:59:32 PM PDT by Notasoccermom
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Those people wouldn’t go if you paid ‘em....


11 posted on 07/29/2016 5:00:35 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Tau Food

Thumbprint is a great idea but wouldn’t that be discriminatory toward the dead voters?


12 posted on 07/29/2016 5:03:37 PM PDT by Notasoccermom
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To: Innovative

A blatant conflict of interest for federal judges to have a say in the very act responsible for giving them more power.


13 posted on 07/29/2016 5:07:02 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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Thumbprint? That’s nothing but pure harassment. It makes us feel like second class citizens, like criminals. Besides, the ink causes cancer.


14 posted on 07/29/2016 5:09:05 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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To: Fester Chugabrew

/s


15 posted on 07/29/2016 5:09:28 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Diversity is Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama sharing the same jail cell.)
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re: “surgical precision”

Why are such judges proud to assert that blacks are uniquely incompetent to handle elementary tasks of citizenship??? (their view not mine)

This is truly the “soft bigotry of low expectations”....

and Democrats truly are the Party of Vote Fraud.


16 posted on 07/29/2016 5:21:15 PM PDT by Enchante (Hillary's new campaign slogan: "Guilty as hell, free as a bird!! Laws are for peasants!")
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Wow two in one day. Kind of makes you think pressure and collusion are in play here. BURN IT ALL DOWN!


17 posted on 07/29/2016 5:21:21 PM PDT by DAC21
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Here’s an idea: when you vote, the voting machine takes your picture. All pictures of voters could then be cross-checked using facial recognition technology against mug shots, death records, and other voters to eliminate criminals, the dead vote, and repeat voters. The computing power necessary to do so exists.

That would eliminate 90% of demscum vote fraud.

Of course lib judges would find some way to strike this down because it would mean the end of demscum getting elected except in the most leftist states.


18 posted on 07/29/2016 5:23:40 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Innovative

Apparently the court’s logic is that blacks are not intelligent enough to comply with a proof of identity that whites have no problem with.


19 posted on 07/29/2016 5:27:34 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: Innovative

related:

Democrat-Appointed Judges Make Big Change To Voting Laws In Time For Election

http://www.westernjournalism.com/democrat-appointed-judges-make-big-change-to-voting-laws-in-time-for-election/


20 posted on 07/29/2016 6:01:37 PM PDT by huldah1776 ( Vote Pro-life! Allow God to bless America before He avenges the death of the innocent.)
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