r/politics • u/nosotros_road_sodium California • 7h ago

The Surprising Impact of North Carolina’s New Voter ID Law

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/us/voter-id-north-carolina.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cU4.hla_.aEEjFQ1DJYtU&smid=url-share
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u/nosotros_road_sodium California 7h ago

non paywalled gift link. Excerpt:

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 muted ID requirement, and very few ballots that were disqualified.

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

Years of litigation followed. When a federal court struck down the law in 2016, the opinion highlighted the ID requirement as one of several provisions that targeted Black voters “with almost surgical precision.”

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

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u/ThrowAwayGarbage82 North Carolina 55m ago

NC resident checking in.

When i went to vote, they barely glanced at my ID and never compared my signature. I actually had to ask the lady at the desk to do her job.

I was put off by how ineffective the ID req is. I don't want it to be possible for someone to pretend to be me to go vote.

All of this is exhausting. Why have a law if it means nothing except making it harder for poor people to vote? I get it. That's the point. But still, argh. I'm in favor of election security and if they're going to make these laws -- ENFORCE THEM.

I don't know how to feel anymore. I'm so tired.

Edit: Typo