A federal judge Monday upheld North Carolina’s controversial new voting law, dealing a blow to critics who said the state’s rules will discourage minorities from casting ballots during this fall’s presidential election.
The voting law, passed by North Carolina’s legislature in 2013, is among the strictest in the country. It reduces the number of days of early voting, prohibits people from registering and voting on the same day, stops ballots cast in the wrong precinct from being counted, ends the practice of preregistering teenagers before they turned 18 and requires a photo ID to vote.
Republican legislators say they added the restrictions to combat voter fraud and to preserve the integrity of the voting system.
Hip…Hip…Hurrah!!!
Nothing like living under Federal occupation where what used to be a sovereign state has to have it’s Constitutionally specified and protected powers approved by it’s own creation and now oppressor.