Are Democrats really the stupid party?

Too stupid to comply?

Don't care enough?

Phooey.

NAACP to appeal North Carolina judge's ruling on 'discriminatory' voting law

The law, requiring voters to provide photo ID at the ballot box, was upheld by a federal judge on Monday despite claims it disenfranchised minority voters.

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The law is best known for requiring people to provide photo identification at the ballot box, but it also eliminated same-day voter registration and ended “out-of-precinct” voting, which allowed users to cast ballots in different precincts if they were still voting in their county.

“There is no dispute that African Americans and Latinos have used the challenged measures at greatly higher rates than whites,” said Penda Hair, co-director of the Advancement Project and an attorney for the NAACP.

But in the Monday ruling, US district judge Thomas Schroeder said plaintiffs “failed to show that such disparities will have materially adverse effects on the ability of minority voters to cast a ballot and effectively exercise the electoral franchise”.

Schroeder wrote that while the state has “shameful past discrimination”, there has been “little” official discrimination more recently.

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North Carolina’s voting laws are widely regarded as the most restrictive in the country, but legal challenges have also recently been mounted against changes to voting laws in Alabama, Texas and Tennessee, where a judge in December 2015 threw out a challenge brought by college students.

In the 2016 presidential election, 17 states will have introduced new voting restrictions since the last presidential election, according to New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.