Can an entire state be an asshole?
How is this democracy?
North Carolina legislature researched black voting practices to suppress turn out
Good thing this law was struck down. It was so obviously racially discriminatory that it had the word "watermelon" written all over it. The worst thing? Not only did the North Carolina GOP "kinda" know the law, in that form, would specifically target African American voters, but it deliberately sought intel on the ways that segment tends to vote, in order to hit it where it hurts most:
"A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit found that the state legislature not only enacted laws that disproportionally made it harder for black people to vote, but that it wrote the laws specifically with that intent."
They've even admitted it outright:
Republican congressman admits voter ID laws are about rigging elections
"Republican congressman Glenn Grothman ... asserted that not only was (yet-to-be-nominated) Hillary Clinton the “weakest candidate Democrats have ever put up,” but that newly enacted voter ID laws “just might make a little bit of difference as well.”"
Talk about being major assholes, and unashamedly so.
The good news is, there's a tendency to finally stand up to this kind of bullshit, what with Wisconsin, Kansas and Texas now seeing voter ID and registration measures also being ruled discriminatory in court decisions that could affect the November results big time. Granted, some of these are not exactly swing states, but others definitely are.
North Carolina legislature researched black voting practices to suppress turn out
Good thing this law was struck down. It was so obviously racially discriminatory that it had the word "watermelon" written all over it. The worst thing? Not only did the North Carolina GOP "kinda" know the law, in that form, would specifically target African American voters, but it deliberately sought intel on the ways that segment tends to vote, in order to hit it where it hurts most:
"A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit found that the state legislature not only enacted laws that disproportionally made it harder for black people to vote, but that it wrote the laws specifically with that intent."
They've even admitted it outright:
Republican congressman admits voter ID laws are about rigging elections
"Republican congressman Glenn Grothman ... asserted that not only was (yet-to-be-nominated) Hillary Clinton the “weakest candidate Democrats have ever put up,” but that newly enacted voter ID laws “just might make a little bit of difference as well.”"
Talk about being major assholes, and unashamedly so.
The good news is, there's a tendency to finally stand up to this kind of bullshit, what with Wisconsin, Kansas and Texas now seeing voter ID and registration measures also being ruled discriminatory in court decisions that could affect the November results big time. Granted, some of these are not exactly swing states, but others definitely are.