Federal judge to block latest North Carolina voter ID mandate

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Source: NBC News

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican attempts to require photo identification to vote in North Carolina are being thwarted again by judges hearing arguments that the mandate is tainted by bias that would deter black and Latino residents.

A federal court announced that next week U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs will formally block a photo ID requirement scheduled to begin in 2020. Unless the upcoming preliminary injunction is successfully appealed, the requirement will be halted until a lawsuit filed by the state NAACP and others is resolved.

Thursday's short written notice from the federal court in Winston-Salem previewed Biggs' order because state election officials were planning to expand efforts to educate voters about the ID law within days. Although the mandate would be carried out beginning with the March 3 primary, the requirement would actually start in just a few weeks with mail-in absentee ballot filers, who also would have to provide an ID copy.

The mandate identified several types of qualifying photo IDs and allowed people lacking one to get a free ID card or to fill out a form while voting explaining their "reasonable impediment" to obtaining one.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/federal-judge-block-latest-north-carolina-voter-id-mandate-n1107896

[Gothmog]

1. From Joe Biden

Link to tweet

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. They just never quit, do they?

And the more evil the ideas are, the more the R's push them.

Goddamn those evil bastards.

[mnhtnbb]

3. The State Board of Elections in NC has already sent out postcards to people

--I received two of them last week--listing all the different options for voter ID that would be accepted and how they could be acquired in order to vote in 2020.

What a waste of time and resources.

[steventh]

4. Hooray for Judge Biggs

I too got one of those "educational" mailings about acceptable IDs for the 2020 election. It made me concerned about how many people would have trouble getting one of those acceptable IDs. It's another hoop to jump through. I hope it goes away in NC and everywhere else the vote suppressors might try..jlpoiuytrew

[Maxheader]

5. Worthless winger states...

Tie up the courts with their bullshit attempts to segregate what they consider to be illegal liberal voters..

Kansaas was the same way under little sammy brownbutt...

[wendyb-NC]

6. That is wonderful news.