There will be no voter identification in North Carolina
2022.12.17 10:55
There will be no voter identification in North Carolina
Budrigannews.com – On Friday, the North Carolina Supreme Court ordered a state Senate map to be redrawn due to Republican partisan gerrymandering and struck down a voter identification law from 2018. The court said the law discriminated against Black voters.
Both were partisan 4-3 decisions, with all Democratic justices voting in favor and all Republican justices voting against. The decisions come just in time for the court to go under GOP control on January 1, with five Republican and two Democratic justices.
A lower court’s ruling in 2021 that a 2018 law requiring voters to present a photo ID was unconstitutional was upheld by the court. “was motivated by a racially discriminatory purpose,” according to the majority opinion, the lower court correctly assessed the law.
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Similar voter ID laws have been passed by Republican-led legislatures in several states in recent years, arguing that they are necessary to prevent voter fraud.
However, critics, including Democrats and advocates for voting rights, claim that the laws will likely prevent African Americans from casting ballots because they lack the necessary identity cards and are more likely to vote Democratic.
The court in the gerrymandering case concluded that the boundaries of state Senate districts diluted the votes of Black voters and unfairly favored Republicans. In 2021, Republican legislators drew the electoral map, which was used for the November elections.
According to the majority opinion of the court, voters were denied a “fundamental right to equal voting power” by the map.
The court instructed lower court judges to redraw the state Senate maps in accordance with the Constitution.
