North Carolina Passes the Country’s
Worst Voter Suppression Law

Recently, the North Carolina legislature passed the country’s worst voter suppression law after three (3) days of debate.

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CONGRATULATIONS, NORTH CAROLINA! 

YOU ARE #1

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Why, You’ve Outdone Florida!

This is the most sweeping anti-voter law in decades. The bill mandates:

Strict voter ID to cast a ballot
NO student IDs
NO public employee IDs
Don’t Even Think About Using a Library Card!
No Freaken IDs, Period!

And it doesn’t matter if 318,000 registered voters don’t meet the narrow forms of acceptable ID. They’re Screwed!

There have been NO recorded prosecutions of voter impersonation in the past decade. BUT, IT MIGHT HAPPEN and we want to be prepared...just in case.

The bill cuts the number of early voting days by a week, even though 56 percent of North Carolinians voted early in 2012.

56% of North Carolinians vote early? Really?

Well, we certainly didn’t mean to discourage voters by cutting early voting days by a week, now did we?

The bill eliminates same-day voter registration during the early voting period, even though 96,000 people used it during the general election in 2012 and states that have adopted the convenient reform have the highest voter turnout in the country.

African-Americans are 23 percent of registered voters in the state, but made up 28 percent of early voters in 2012, 33 percent of those who used same-day registration and 34 percent of those without state-issued ID.

There, that should do it!

And that’s just the start of it. In short, the bill eliminates practically everything that encourages people to vote in North Carolina, replaced by unnecessary and burdensome new restrictions.

Why, I do believe y’all are attempting to suppress the vote.

Quick! Get me my smelling salts...I feel the vapors coming on!

At the same time, the bill expands the influence of unregulated corporate influence in state elections.

Just what our democracy needs—more money and less voting!

“I want you to understand what this bill means to people,” said Representative Mickey Michaux (D-Durham), the longest-serving member of the North Carolina House and a veteran of the civil rights movement who grew up in the Jim Crow South.

“We have fought for, died for and struggled for our right to vote. You can take these 57 pages of abomination and confine them to the streets of Hell for all eternity.”

Good-by, Democracy...It was wonderful while it lasted.