A panel of state judges have blocked North Carolina’s voter identification law, ruling that the law’s enactment was “motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters.”
’s voter identification law on Friday, ruling that the law’s enactment was “motivated at least in part by an unconstitutional intent to target African American voters.”
Republican lawmakers rushed a strict voter ID law through the state Legislature in 2018, overriding a gubernatorial veto from Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat. The law was challenged immediately by a group of voters, and courts blocked the law’s enforcement while the suit was litigated and appealed through state courts. The decision was 2-1, with two Democratic Judges Michael O’Foghludha and Vince Rozier Jr, ruling that the law violated voters right to equal protections under the law.
Black voters were 39 percent more likely to lack a form of qualifying identification, the court said, citing an analysis by University of Michigan Professor Kevin Quinn, an expert witness for the plaintiffs. “Other, less restrictive voter ID laws would have sufficed to achieve the legitimate nonracial purposes of implementing the constitutional amendment requiring voter ID, deterring fraud, or enhancing voter confidence,” the court concluded.
Judge Nathaniel Poovey, a Republican, dissented, writing that “not one scintilla of evidence was introduced during this trial that any legislator acted with racially discriminatory intent.”
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