As expected, Gov. Roy Cooper Friday vetoed Senate Bill 824, a measure implementing the voter identification requirement enacted in November by voters in a constitutional referendum. In his veto message, Cooper called the measure “sinister and cynical.” “It was designed to suppress the rights of minority, poor and elderly voters. The cost of disenfranchising those...
Too broad. Too narrow. Too lenient. Too stringent. These descriptors were tossed around the N.C. House floor during a Dec. 5 debate over a bill which codifies a new constitutional amendment requiring voters to present photo identification at the ballot box. Fifty-five percent of North Carolina voters on Nov. 6 affirmed a legislative proposal to...
A bipartisan bill to implement the state’s new constitutional amendment requiring photo identification to vote whisked through the Senate Select Committee on Elections by unanimous vote. A second round of debate in the Senate Rules Committee and a second floor vote are set for Wednesday, Nov. 28. Senate Bill 824, whose primary sponsors are Sens....
Voter turnout after the 2013 enactment of North Carolina’s election reforms has been at or above previous levels.
Rick Henderson on election results/trends; Hans von Spakovsky on why voter ID makes sense; Nelson Dollar & Deborah Cassidy on program formerly known as More at Four; Stephen Miller on why education can be overrated; Terry Stoops on charter school growth.
