A couple of weeks ago, part of North Carolina's new voting law, one of the toughest in the nation, was struck down by the courts it was likely to disenfranchise voters. Ya think? After all, that's what it was designed to do.
In a 2 - 1 ruling the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals suspended part of the Republican bill that would have eliminated same day registration during early voting, and voided ballots cast on election day outside of a person's assigned precinct.
All in the name of preventing voter fraud. And the fact that in the history of the United States there have only been four documented cases of actual voter fraud. Four votes in 238 years. This is such a bogus non-issue that it would be laughable if it weren't so sad. But the legislature in North Carolina had to come up with some excuse to not allow Blacks (usually Democrats) to vote.
Some might ask, "What's so bad about insisting that a person vote in their assigned precinct?" That seems reasonable. And on face value, there is nothing wrong with that. Except Republicans are notorious for calling people to inform them that their voting site has changed, or greeting black voters at the door to convince them they have to vote in another precinct, so that their vote won't count. There are hundreds of documented cases of that, hundreds more in fact of cases of voter fraud.
But the North Carolina legislature simply can't be bothered to pass legislation to make that real voter fraud a crime.
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