North Carolina voters fear new ID law will keep them from polls

[struggle4progress]

The election law, which its Republican supporters say is needed to combat fraud, requires state-issued documentation that not everyone can easily get.
By David Zucchino
September 7, 2013, 7:18 p.m.

HOPE MILLS, N.C. — Alberta Currie, the great-granddaughter of slaves, was born in a farmhouse surrounded by tobacco and cotton fields. Her mother, Willie Pearl, gave birth with the assistance of a midwife.

No birth certificate was issued; a birth announcement was handwritten into the Currie family Bible.

Today, 78 years later, that absence of official documentation may force Currie to sit out an election for the first time since 1956. Under a restrictive new voter ID law in North Carolina, a state-issued photo ID is required for voting as of the 2016 election.

Voters can obtain a state-issued ID at no cost. But that requires getting to a state driver's license office, waiting in line — and providing documents that many voters lack, among them an original or certified birth certificate and original Social Security card ...

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-north-carolina-voter-law-20130908,0,2115606.story

[Laelth]

1. I suspect this fear is justified.

In fact, I suspect that voter suppression was the intent of the law.

-Laelth