{"id":139335,"date":"2024-11-28T14:28:02","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139335"},"modified":"2024-11-28T14:28:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T14:28:05","slug":"the-surprising-impact-of-north-carolinas-new-voter-id-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=139335","title":{"rendered":"“The Surprising Impact of North Carolina\u2019s New Voter ID Law”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NY Times<\/a>: “After more than a decade of court battles and legislative jousting over voting rules, North Carolina this month held its first general election under its new voter ID law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And unlike the pitched battles of the past, it felt like a fight that had largely been fought to a draw, with a more muted ID requirement, and very few ballots that were disqualified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, when North Carolina\u2019s Republican-run State Legislature first required voters to pull out a photo ID card before casting a ballot, it stirred a hornet\u2019s nest of protest that the real goal was to keep nonwhite, mostly Democratic, voters from the polls….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This month, voters cast 5.7 million ballots under a new Republican-written voter ID law. How things have changed: Now, North Carolina\u2019s law is being criticized by some on the right<\/a> as too weak and porous, though the vote went smoothly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The law \u2014 approved in 2018 but stalled by court battles until last year \u2014 requires both in-person and mail voters to show proof of identity. That departs from most laws that require an ID only at the polls….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared with the earlier voter ID legislation, the current law \u201cis not even night and day, or apples and oranges. It\u2019s cucumbers and baseball bats,\u201d said Christopher Cooper, an expert on state politics and government at Western Carolina University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With tallies still incomplete, the measure has invalidated the ballots of 2,169 voters who did not produce an ID card, about one in every 2,600 voters and fewer than many expected. But that number is itself a head-scratcher: Virtually all of those rejected voters could have kept their eligibility simply by signing an affidavit explaining why they had no identification.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NY Times: “After more than a decade of court battles and legislative jousting over voting rules, North Carolina this month held its first general election under its new voter ID law. And unlike the pitched battles of the past, it felt like a fight that had largely been fought to a draw, with a more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139336,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139335\/revisions\/139336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}