Voter ID bill passes NC House along party lines
Published: April 24, 2013 Updated 2 hours ago
By CHRIS KARDISH — Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. — A Republican bill requiring voters to present photo identification passed the North Carolina House Wednesday in a vote that split mostly along party lines.
The Republican-controlled House approved the bill 81-36 following nearly three hours of amendments and partisan-charged debate. The bill now heads to the Senate, where Republicans also hold a substantial majority.
Most Democratic amendments to ease restrictions failed, but one from Rep. Charles Graham, D-Robeson, restored state tribal ID to the forms of ID accepted under the bill. He later crossed party lines to vote in favor of the bill.
Voter ID legislation has sharply divided Republicans and Democrats nationally and in North Carolina where the GOP won control of the legislature in 2010. A previous attempt by Republicans to enact voter ID failed in 2011 when then-Gov. Beverly Perdue vetoed it. Republican Gov. Pat McCrory supports voter ID ...
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