Amy Goodman
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North Carolina Voter ID Law Takes Effect, Disproportionately Bars Blacks, Young People from Polls
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March 16, 2016
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4:19Now PlayingWe turn now to North Carolina, where one of the country’s most controversial and restrictive voter identification laws took effect for the first time in Tuesday’s primary elections. The law, which was passed by the Republicandominated North Carolina state Legislature in 2013, limits the forms of ID acceptable at polling places. As a result, about 5 percent of the state’s registered voters, primarily AfricanAmerican, are excluded from being able to cast a ballot. Under the law, student IDs, government employee IDs and public assistance IDsforms of identification disproportionately held by African Americansare no longer accepted. Passports, Motor Vehicle Department IDs and expired IDs for people over 70identification disproportionately held by whitesare allowed. We speak to Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, a nonpartisan organization to increase voter participation.
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