North Carolina Is The Latest Battleground In The Fight For Voting Rights

[Lakhota]

Fifty years after "Bloody Sunday," the fight for voting rights continues in North Carolina.

After the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, allowing jurisdictions to change voting laws without federal oversight, North Carolina passed a bill that placed new restrictions on the voting process. The law requires voters to show government-issued identification at the polls, shortens early voting, ends same-day registration and "increases the number of poll observers who can challenge a voter’s eligibility," according to the LA Times.

Despite the blow to the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP and the civil rights organization Advancement Project are taking on the "voter suppression" using portions of the act that were left intact by the Supreme Court verdict. Jasmyn Richardson, a staff attorney with the Advancement Project, joined HuffPost Live on Monday to discuss the suit.

The North Carolina law targets many "things that a lot of young people, people of color and poor people were using to get people out to vote and to register to vote"and the Advancement Project is challenging it based on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th and 15th amendments, Richardson explained to host Alyona Minkovski.

North Carolina Is The Latest Battleground In The Fight For Voting Rights

Voter Suppression 101: How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans

To those who say requiring government-issued identification should not be a problem - what about all the other restrictions on the voting process? Such as: shortens early voting, ends same-day registration and increases the number of poll observers who can challenge a voter’s eligibility. How can anyone honestly deny that these restrictions are designed to restrict voting rights among certain groups of voters - primarily Democrat voters?

 

[Stephanie]

Not this shit again. do you people ever have a new idea?

You are a tool for a dirty party filled with liars and don't care if you mislead the people in this country

Democrat party and progressives crawls lower than snakes

You just kicked Democrats out of congress for this kind of crap

 

[Lakhota]

Not this shit again. do you people ever have a new idea?

You are a tool for a dirty party filled with liars and don't care if you mislead the people in this country

Democrat party and progressives crawls lower than snakes

You just kicked Democrats out of congress for this kind of crap

It was just a typical midterm election. Wait until 2016. BTW, are you too fucking stupid to address the OP?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The Constitution is clear, Each INDIVIDUAL State sets the requirements for when and how people vote. The State not the Federal Government decides how many days people can vote when they vote other then the Federal election day and how they register with a few restrictions.

 

[The Irish Ram]

No one is restricting any legal citizen the right to vote. That is liberal spin. What some are, and all should be requiring, is proof you are who you say you are. No one is bitching about anyone asking for ID when you use a credit card, or showing proof of your age.
This is another one of those "stupid Americans" ploys to convince Americans that providing proof when voting is tantamount to denying you your right to vote.
The reason this regime wants you to attack this system is so all of the illegals that have no right to determine the outcome of our elections, can indeed determine the outcome of our elections.

 

[whitehall]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

 

[Jarlaxle]

Thread title is a bald-faced lie.

Thread starter is a lying shit.

All systems normal for Shitting Bull.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

"To those who say requiring government-issued identification should not be a problem..."

Those who say such a thing only exhibit their ignorance and stupidity.

Many older African-Americans born before the advent of the Civil Rights movement simply don't have the documents needed to obtain the required state issued ID, the consequence of segregation and discrimination.

These are voters currently registered and eligible to vote, who have been voting for the last 30 to 40 years in every election, now being denied that fundamental right.

It's perfectly appropriate to require a photo ID of a new voter registering to vote for the first time; but those currently registered should be allowed to continue voting absent an ID unless there's evidence of 'fraud' specific to that voter.

 

[OKTexas]

Fifty years after "Bloody Sunday," the fight for voting rights continues in North Carolina.

After the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, allowing jurisdictions to change voting laws without federal oversight, North Carolina passed a bill that placed new restrictions on the voting process. The law requires voters to show government-issued identification at the polls, shortens early voting, ends same-day registration and "increases the number of poll observers who can challenge a voter’s eligibility," according to the LA Times.

Despite the blow to the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP and the civil rights organization Advancement Project are taking on the "voter suppression" using portions of the act that were left intact by the Supreme Court verdict. Jasmyn Richardson, a staff attorney with the Advancement Project, joined HuffPost Live on Monday to discuss the suit.

The North Carolina law targets many "things that a lot of young people, people of color and poor people were using to get people out to vote and to register to vote"and the Advancement Project is challenging it based on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th and 15th amendments, Richardson explained to host Alyona Minkovski.

North Carolina Is The Latest Battleground In The Fight For Voting Rights

Voter Suppression 101: How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans

To those who say requiring government-issued identification should not be a problem - what about all the other restrictions on the voting process? Such as: shortens early voting, ends same-day registration and increases the number of poll observers who can challenge a voter’s eligibility. How can anyone honestly deny that these restrictions are designed to restrict voting rights among certain groups of voters - primarily Democrat voters?

If you can prove it only impacts dems you might have a point, if everyone is impacted equally there is nothing discriminatory about it. Same day registration has always been a bad idea, it's an open invitation for fraud.

 

[OKTexas]

"To those who say requiring government-issued identification should not be a problem..."

Those who say such a thing only exhibit their ignorance and stupidity.

Many older African-Americans born before the advent of the Civil Rights movement simply don't have the documents needed to obtain the required state issued ID, the consequence of segregation and discrimination.

These are voters currently registered and eligible to vote, who have been voting for the last 30 to 40 years in every election, now being denied that fundamental right.

It's perfectly appropriate to require a photo ID of a new voter registering to vote for the first time; but those currently registered should be allowed to continue voting absent an ID unless there's evidence of 'fraud' specific to that voter.

Can you get anymore racist, are you really saying blacks are less able to document their lives than an even greater number of whites born in similar circumstances?

 

[AmericanFirst]

Fifty years after "Bloody Sunday," the fight for voting rights continues in North Carolina.

After the 2013 Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, allowing jurisdictions to change voting laws without federal oversight, North Carolina passed a bill that placed new restrictions on the voting process. The law requires voters to show government-issued identification at the polls, shortens early voting, ends same-day registration and "increases the number of poll observers who can challenge a voter’s eligibility," according to the LA Times.

Despite the blow to the Voting Rights Act, the NAACP and the civil rights organization Advancement Project are taking on the "voter suppression" using portions of the act that were left intact by the Supreme Court verdict. Jasmyn Richardson, a staff attorney with the Advancement Project, joined HuffPost Live on Monday to discuss the suit.

The North Carolina law targets many "things that a lot of young people, people of color and poor people were using to get people out to vote and to register to vote"and the Advancement Project is challenging it based on Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and the 14th and 15th amendments, Richardson explained to host Alyona Minkovski.

North Carolina Is The Latest Battleground In The Fight For Voting Rights

Voter Suppression 101: How Conservatives Are Conspiring to Disenfranchise Millions of Americans

To those who say requiring government-issued identification should not be a problem - what about all the other restrictions on the voting process? Such as: shortens early voting, ends same-day registration and increases the number of poll observers who can challenge a voter’s eligibility. How can anyone honestly deny that these restrictions are designed to restrict voting rights among certain groups of voters - primarily Democrat voters?

Libtards like you hate it when illegals get stopped before they can vote illegally. Don't worry you still have welfare moms voting multiple times and the dead vote. Idiot.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

If you idiots would stop voting illegally there wouldn't be a need for voter id. If you can legally vote an id is not a problem.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

If you idiots would stop voting illegally there wouldn't be a need for voter id. If you can legally vote an id is not a problem.

There is no need for voter ID but it keeps the darkies from voting which helps the GOP.

 

[AmericanFirst]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

If you idiots would stop voting illegally there wouldn't be a need for voter id. If you can legally vote an id is not a problem.

There is no need for voter ID but it keeps the darkies from voting which helps the GOP.

Yes there is, you idiots just love illegal voters, hence amnesty.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

If you idiots would stop voting illegally there wouldn't be a need for voter id. If you can legally vote an id is not a problem.

There is no need for voter ID but it keeps the darkies from voting which helps the GOP.

Yes there is, you idiots just love illegal voters, hence amnesty.

Unrelated issues. The illegal don't vote. What matters is, you don't want the darkies voting, as usual,

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

If you idiots would stop voting illegally there wouldn't be a need for voter id. If you can legally vote an id is not a problem.

There is no need for voter ID but it keeps the darkies from voting which helps the GOP.

Ya cause after all 13 percent of the population is sure to tip any election. Remind me of the last time blacks controlled an election?

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Why is it that it's always democrats who claim that Black people are too stupid to obtain a photo I.D.? When will Black people get tired of the democrat party plantation?

When will you realize that voting came before photo ID?

If you idiots would stop voting illegally there wouldn't be a need for voter id. If you can legally vote an id is not a problem.

There is no need for voter ID but it keeps the darkies from voting which helps the GOP.

Ya cause after all 13 percent of the population is sure to tip any election. Remind me of the last time blacks controlled an election?

You're the one that fears such a thing, so you tell me, but I'd say the last two national elections, which you lost, eh?

 

[Staidhup]

Its a given fact democrats do not believe Black and Hispanic citizens are capable of obtaining a valid photo ID, and God forbid prove they are American Citizens entitled to vote.
None the less we are the only country that does not require voter identification.

 

[PaintMyHouse]

Its a given fact democrats do not believe Black and Hispanic citizens are capable of obtaining a valid photo ID, and God forbid prove they are American Citizens entitled to vote.
None the less we are the only country that does not require voter identification.

The fix is easy, issue the ID like other nations, and then ask for it. Simple, but that won't help the Party Of White now will it?