teabucket 发表于 2024-10-29 16:19
New GOP Voter ID Laws Are Built Off of Jim Crow Second, the GOP Voter ID bills are built off of Jim Crow racism and designed to target and suppress Black voters. These bills have nothing to do with securing our elections. For example, the US Appeals Court struck down North Carolina's discriminatory Voter ID law, ruling: The law was intentionally designed to discriminate against black people. North Carolina legislators had requested data on voting patterns by race and, with that data in hand, drafted a law that would target African-Americans with almost surgical precision. The Court realized that North Carolina’s Republican legislators studied voting habits of voters in North Carolina, and learned that Black voters in particular: tend to register and vote the same day use a particular form of ID to register to vote disproportionately vote early rather than on Election Day get their kids registered in high school to vote when they turn 18, and often vote out of precinct at wherever is most convenient based on where they work After studying these habits, North Carolina Republicans passed Voter ID requirements that banned same day registration, banned out of precinct voting, ended high school registration, eliminated early voting, and created a new Voter ID requirement that mandated an ID that Black people were least likely to have.