Tag Archives: Voter ID

If you didn’t get enough of voter ID Tuesday, there’s more to come Wednesday afternoon. The House Elections Committee will be hearing from experts and advocates on both sides of the issue today at 1 p.m. The meeting will be in the same room where the hearing was held on Tuesday, 643 Legislative Office Building.Continue Reading

You can’t say that Rep. David Lewis is afraid to face opposition. Lewis, the chairman of the House Elections Committee, presided over the committee’s public hearing on voter ID Tuesday. By a long shot, most of the speakers at the hearing opposed the measure, which would require North Carolina voters to show a photo ID toContinue Reading

An article this weekend in the Winston-Salem Journal reported that as many as 613,000 voters in North Carolina may not have valid photo IDs.  That’s about 9% of all North Carolina voters.  Of course, then the article went on to talk about all the reasons that number may be hugely inflated.  They came up withContinue Reading

North Carolina isn’t the only state that’s seen battles over voter ID laws in recent months.  But not all of them have gone the same way as North Carolina’s, which was vetoed earlier this year.  Today, in Pennsylvania, a judge refused to strike down a law very similar to North Carolina’s, which requires all votersContinue Reading

This article is a submission from Diane Rufino, June 7, 2012. I’m writing this article to urge fellow North Carolinians to continue their support of the Voter ID bill (H.R.351) and to oppose any efforts by the Republican leadership in the NC General Assembly to compromise or water down the protections of the bill inContinue Reading