Data Proves NC’s Voter ID Law Declares War on Women’s Votes
According to figures compiled by the
Brennan Justice Center, only 66% of voting age women nationwide have ready access to documents that prove their citizenship and is in their current legal name.
The reason why is pretty straightforward. When women marry or divorce, they change their surname. This means that ID which proves their citizenship and their new legal name won’t match. That leaves women’s votes vulnerable to challenges.
If we go by the 2000 census, that means 32 million women may have access to documents that prove their citizenship – but those documents are not in their current legal name.
Without question, the ALEC inspired “Voter ID” law in NC, and in other red states, target votes by blacks and Hispanics. Make no mistake about it. ALEC has women’s votes in the cross hairs too. The hard numbers provided by the Republican controlled State Board of Elections in North Carolina show that
64% of women who are eligible voters don’t have the ID they will need to vote in 2014. That is 62% of women without the newly required ID who voted in 2012.
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