Posted on 11/24/2024 10:59:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
After more than a decade of court battles and legislative jousting over voting rules, North Carolina this month held its first general election under its new voter ID law.
And unlike the pitched battles of the past, it felt like a fight that had largely been fought to a draw, with a more muted ID requirement, and very few ballots that were disqualified.
In 2013, when North Carolina’s Republican-run State Legislature first required voters to pull out a photo ID card before casting a ballot, it stirred a hornet’s nest of protest that the real goal was to keep nonwhite, mostly Democratic, voters from the polls.
Years of litigation followed. When a federal court struck down the law in 2016, the opinion highlighted the ID requirement as one of several provisions that targeted Black voters “with almost surgical precision.”
This month, voters cast 5.7 million ballots under a new Republican-written voter ID law. How things have changed: Now, North Carolina’s law is being criticized by some on the right as too weak and porous, though the vote went smoothly.
The law — approved in 2018 but stalled by court battles until last year — requires both in-person and mail voters to show proof of identity. That departs from most laws that require an ID only at the polls.
But unlike the 2013 law, it offers voters an array of acceptable ID cards, from drivers licenses to student IDs to free state ID cards. If voters have no ID — older people who do not have a driver’s license and mail voters who do not have printers to copy their IDs, among many others — they can ensure their ballots count with the affidavit of explanation, or can show an ID later at a local elections office.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I voted in North Carolina this year for the presidential election. I was extremely pleased when they asked for my ID, the woman held it in her hand, looked at my address, looked at the address on my voter registration, make sure everything was correct and then handed me a ballot.
I’m sure they’re still opportunities for fraud, but I was happy
So what was the alleged surprise?
Isn’t it racist to presume black Americans cannot handle IDs. How do they manage to board airplanes?
Right now the only persons who can fly in America without an ID are illegal migrants.
That right. On “Live PD”, mostly non-white, DemocRATS DON’T CARRY IDs, or driver’s licenses, or auto insurance... but they all have cellphones.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I think all the editors in the country have been fired. The article does not support the headline
“the real goal was to keep nonwhite, mostly Democratic, voters from the polls.”
F’n NYT. It was to stop some of the rampant cheating
WHEN I VOTED IN PERSON here in Nevada-—they SCANNED the back of my Nevada driver’s license, and looked hard at the pic.
MY newest license: I look like a demented escapee from “THE HOME”.
Sorry, I have no use for anything from the NYTimes.
Here we have 2 propaganda pieces posted to FR within 2.5 minutes.
And the takeaway, the voter ID laws didn’t hinder turnout by blacks, browns, asians or whites and the liberal hysteria around such laws are based on falsehoods. But it took the usual woke blather to get around to that point.
And that’s still too many.
RE:”Sorry, I have no use for anything from the NYTimes.
Here we have 2 propaganda pieces posted to FR within 2.5 minutes”
How does asking *everyone* for a photo ID target black voters "with almost surgical precision"? It's amazing how condescending these racist leftist judges are as they imagine that blacks can't come up with a photo ID like they (and everyone else) do for dozens of other activities.
“Non-whites” are too stupid to have an ID? Is that what this writer is saying?
No system will ever be 100% fraud proof or perfect in that it is easy to use for every eligible voter under all possible circumstances.
The goal is to derive at a solution that “reasonably” prevents voter fraud while also giving all those eligible to vote a “reasonable” chance to do so.
I missed the electiontions this year (first time in my life). Last second, my wife and I, stressed out over home renovations and the mess it has created, went to Mexico for a vacation. Get away before we go nuts. This is an example where the system just can’t possibly cover every possible scenario in affording people the chance to vote.
North Carolina seems to have come to such a solution. I hope-
Democrats 60 years ago. "Well of course a picture ID won't stop fraud because such IDs do not uniquely identify the negro. As everyone knows all blacks look alike!"
They don't use that reasoning anymore. Instead, they do this.
"Well of course a picture ID won't stop fraud because blacks are too stupid to be able to get such IDs."
With tallies still incomplete, the measure has invalidated the ballots of 2,169 voters who did not produce an ID card, about one in every 2,600 voters and fewer than many expected. But that number is itself a head-scratcher: Virtually all of those rejected voters could have kept their eligibility simply by signing an affidavit explaining why they had no identification.The writer is pretending not to understand that the law prevented fraud. It is not merely to catch fraud after it happens. Read full articles here: https://archive.phWhich raises the question of what the law actually does.
“I don’t know what it accomplishes, other than for some folks who really feel it’s needed, it’s enough,” Bob Phillips, the executive director of Common Cause North Carolina and a steadfast opponent of voter ID laws, said of the requirement.
Of the 18 states (and the District of Columbia) that Kommiemala (allegedly) "carried," 13 required no ID whatsoever*, four accepted IDs with no photo, and only two (2) required a photo ID.
*Hawaii, not shown, does NOT require an ID to vote, and yes, Hawaii (allegedly) went for Kommiemala.
When the new DOJ investigates voting in California, Arizona, Nevada...all the No ID and permanent mail in ballots states (Michigan), And consent agreements are provoked, it will change many things.
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