US EditionNorth Carolina voter ID and tax cap amendments are enforceable, judges rule
- Two North Carolina constitutional amendments, including a photo voter identification mandate, were ruled enforceable by a trial court panel.
- The North Carolina NAACP did not prove that the amendments were passed with discriminatory intent or that they produced meaningful racial impact.
- The General Assembly approved a law for implementing photo voter ID shortly after the amendments were passed.
- The North Carolina Supreme Court previously ruled that canceling referendum initiations was possible, but doing so now would cause chaos.
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Carolina Coast OnlineJudges uphold North Carolina’s voter ID, tax cap constitutional amendments
A bipartisan three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s 2018 state constitutional amendments guaranteeing photo identification for voters and lowering the state’s cap on income tax rates. It’s a case that prompted Carolina Journal’s “Extreme Injustice” podcast. Plaintiffs in the case North Carolina NAACP v. Moore had argued that the amendments unconstitutionally discriminated against minorities. “Plaintiff’s pleadings fail to establish that ‘…
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