Hagan Asks US Attorney General To Examine NC's Voter ID Law

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3. NC's so-called "Voter ID law" is a large bill, mostly involving voter-suppression tactics other than

ID requirements

It reduces early voting opportunities, for example. It eliminates pre-registration; it eliminates same-day registration during one-stop early voting

Some of it will be employed in conjunction with other effects of the gerrymander and R control of local elections boards. For example, a majority of NC voters, who voted D or R in the 2012 elections, voted for D congressional candidates, but the gerrymander produced a 9R-4D split in the congressional delegation. The local elections boards have taken actions to reinforce this: in Watauga county, three precincts were combined into one, with a single polling location outside town, serving 9300 voters (well-beyond the recommended maximum of 1500) and only about 35 parking places. And the so-called "Voter ID" law contains provisions that will enable Rs to slow voting to a crawl in selected precincts

There are real concerns about the effects on the 2014 election