A federal trial on NC's voter ID law winds down with its future at stake
North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law represents another chapter in the state’s long history of discriminatory laws meant to deter Black voters that includes poll taxes and literacy tests, a lawyer for the NAACP told a federal judge Monday.
While acknowledging that history, a lawyer for Republican legislators said that the photo ID law is not part of that legacy. Experiences with last year’s municipal elections and this year’s primary, shows a “vanishingly small number of people who can’t vote because of photo ID,” the Republicans’ lawyer said.
The long-delayed federal trial over the law requiring voters to show photo ID is coming to a close after about a week of testimony at the federal courthouse in Winston-Salem.
The NAACP and local chapters sued over the law soon after it passed in 2018, contending that it discriminated against Black and Latino voters in violation of the federal Voting Rights Act and the U.S. Constitution.
https://ncnewsline.com/2024/05/14/a-federal-trial-on-ncs-voter-id-law-winds-down-with-its-future-at-stake/
