By Mildred Robertson
The
North Carolina NAACP Conference has called on North Carolina Governor Roy
Cooper to veto lame duck legislation recently pushed through by the GOP. The
organization says it believes Senate Bill 824, “Implementation of Voter ID
Constitutional Amendment,” will negatively impact minority voters in the
state.
The
NAACP has drafted a letter, dated December 12, 2018, that outlines in
great detail why the legislation is bad for the citizens of North Carolina. The
letter further details that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit has already struck down North Carolina General Assembly’s previous
attempt to enact a photo voter ID requirement in the 2013 omnibus voter
restriction and photo voter ID law. The Court found that the voter ID legislation
targets African-Americans "with almost surgical precision.” It further
found that the legislation was “enacted with racially discriminatory intent,”
and that it imposed cures for problems that did not exist.
Rev.
Dr. T. Anthony Spearman, president of the North Carolina NAACP Conference, states that there is no new justification for the implementation of
this law and that it provides no additional safeguards for the voting process
in the state. This legislation, he says, is simply evidence of the General
Assembly’s “improper motivations.”
To read the letter in its entirety follow this link: LETTER
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