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- Goose
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Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
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 83-page decision by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upended voting procedures in a battleground state about three months before Election Day. That ruling and a second wide-ranging decision on Friday, in Wisconsin, continued a string of recent court opinions against restrictive voting laws that critics say were created solely to keep minority and other traditionally Democratic voters away from the polls.
The North Carolina ruling tossed out the state’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 partly eliminated.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
We as a country need to remove any and all attempts to limit voting.
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Re: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
What . . . One party is trying to restrict the rights of individuals ! ? ! ?
In order to benefit that party and increase their chances of grabbing power ! ? ! ?
Say it ain't so. Voting rights in jeopardy is another reason to appoint reasonable judges to the Supreme Court.
If my voting rights are restricted, thank goodness I have my sacred 2nd amendment right to own and use weapons in case I have to force my way into the polling place.
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Re: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
Rongone wrote:
What . . . One party is trying to restrict the rights of individuals ! ? ! ?
In order to benefit that party and increase their chances of grabbing power ! ? ! ?
Say it ain't so. Voting rights in jeopardy is another reason to appoint reasonable judges to the Supreme Court.
If my voting rights are restricted, thank goodness I have my sacred 2nd amendment right to own and use weapons in case I have to force my way into the polling place.
I know that you are being sarcastic, but this is an excellent thing to think about.
When I start going on about the danger, and the utter lack of necessity of assault weapons in the civilian populace, I am told that the 2nd amendment does not exist for hunting, or sport shooting. No, the second amendment exists so that the people can protect themselves from the government.
OK, so let me ask, how many of these armed patriots would support it if American blacks were to use guns to reassert their voting rights against these laws that are popping up in some states? I'm guessing that we'd go from fighting the evil government is our right to we must restore law and order in a heartbeat.
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Federal Appeals Court Strikes Down North Carolina Voter ID Requirement
One would think that it would be a total conundrum for a person that favors protecting certain individual rights and, at the same time, is vociferously adamant about restricting or aborting individual rights to which they are opposed.
I think that would be a conundrum for a reasonable person.
The unfortunate reality of today's society and politics is that it is fraught with unreasonable, selfish, bigoted, me first sentiment that is becoming more pervasive and acceptable. Interest in the communal well being is on the decline.
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