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del
08-31-2016, 05:17 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The U.S. Supreme Court refused Wednesday to reinstate North Carolina’s voter identification requirement and keep just 10 days of early in-person voting. The court rejected a request by Gov. Pat McCrory and other state officials to delay a lower court ruling that found the state law was tainted by racial discrimination.
The decision - a victory for voting rights groups and President Barack Obama’s Justice Department - means voters won’t have to show one of several qualifying photo IDs when casting ballots in the presidential battleground state. Early voting also reverts to 17 days, to begin Oct. 20.

A trial court judge in April had upheld the 2013 law, but the 4th Circuit panel wrote he seemed “to have missed the forest in carefully surveying the many trees” by failing to recognize a link between race and politics in North Carolina.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-refuses-to-reinstate-north-carolina-voter-id-law/

the senate majority's decision to refuse to hold hearings for scotus appointee is the gift that keeps on giving.

thanks, mitch

Safety
08-31-2016, 05:18 PM
The south is rising again.

decedent
08-31-2016, 05:25 PM
Surely there must be other ways to prevent blacks from voting. How about intimidating minority neighborhoods (https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trump-is-encouraging-intimidation-and-racial-profiling-at-the-polls/)?

Ethereal
08-31-2016, 05:30 PM
Forcing someone to show identification in order to vote in an election is so tyrannical and racist!

del
08-31-2016, 05:32 PM
Surely there must be other ways to prevent blacks from voting.

indeed there are


The data is processed through a system called the Interstate Voter Registration Crosscheck Program, which is being promoted by a powerful Republican operative, and its lists of potential duplicate voters are kept confidential.

We were able to obtain more lists—Georgia and Washington state, the total number of voters adding up to more than 1 million matches—and Crosscheck's results seemed at best deeply flawed. We found that one-fourth of the names on the list actually lacked a middle-name match. The system can also mistakenly identify fathers and sons as the same voter, ignoring designations of Jr. and Sr. A whole lot of people named "James Brown" are suspected of voting or registering twice, 357 of them in Georgia alone. But according to Crosscheck, James Willie Brown is supposed to be the same voter as James Arthur Brown. James Clifford Brown is allegedly the same voter as James Lynn Brown.

We had Mark Swedlund, a database expert whose clients include eBay and American Express, look at the data from Georgia and Virginia, and he was shocked by Crosscheck's "childish methodology." He added, "God forbid your name is Garcia, of which there are 858,000 in the U.S., and your first name is Joseph or Jose. You're probably suspected of voting in 27 states." Swedlund's statistical analysis found that African-American, Latino and Asian names predominate, a simple result of the Crosscheck matching process, which spews out little more than a bunch of common names. No surprise: The U.S. Census data shows that minorities are overrepresented in 85 of 100 of the most common last names. If your name is Washington, there's an 89 percent chance you're African-American. If your last name is Hernandez, there's a 94 percent chance you're Hispanic. If your name is Kim, there's a 95 percent chance you're Asian.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a48232/kris-kobach-voter-suppression/

Bethere
08-31-2016, 05:36 PM
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-refuses-to-reinstate-north-carolina-voter-id-law/

the senate majority's decision to refuse to hold hearings for scotus appointee is the gift that keeps on giving.

thanks, mitch

This is awesome!