House Bill 351 was introduced in the NC General Assembly yesterday requiring NC voters to present government-issued photo ID each time they vote. Our research shows that this bill could negatively affect more than 460,000 active voters statewide who lack a government-issued photo ID, primarily seniors, women, college students and African-American voters. Worse, as our official statement on the bill shows, not only does this fail to address the issue of voter fraud, it actually makes it easier to commit fraud using absentee ballots.
A summary of our statewide findings with a demographic breakdown of affected groups can be found at:
http://democracyncarchive.org/downloads/VoterIDDataByRaceSexAgePartySumm.doc
If you have any questions about our research, please feel free to contact our Executive Director Bob Hall directly at 919-489-1931.
More Resources
You can download a copy of the bill here:
http://democracyncarchive.org/downloads/H351v0.pdf
We have also assembled a collection of personal stories from voters explaining why the bill would make it more difficult for people without government-issued IDs to vote and why they are opposed to its passage. You can view these stories at:
http://democracyncarchive.org/VoterIDStories.html
Democracy North Carolina believes this is an unnecessary, expensive and ineffectual bill. For more on why we say this, please visit our website at:
If you would like to interview anyone from our organization or get in touch with any of the voters who have shared their stories publicly, please call me at 919-286-6000, Ext. 20.
Thanks,
Katy Munger
Communications Director
Democracy North Carolina
Show your ID. quite simple. Commie Idiots
OK, let me get this straight: They want to stop a bill that would protect the sanctity of the process of voting and the reason it exists? They say it would prevent seniors, women, college students and black voters from voting? I’m pretty sure that this was started as a black agenda item and they’re covering it up with inclusion of other groups. Most seniors have some type of photo ID. And as for women, how is their holding of a photo ID any different from men? College students–that’s the only exception due to the absentee ballots. And blacks? That speaks for itself. Other than the college students, based on the group listing alone, I can’t support this liberal agenda and would vote in favor of the bill. IF you do what you are supposed to do–go get a photo ID, even if it’s not a DL–then you should be fine. I’d agree with it if it were only on the basis of absentee ballots. BUt it is making an excuse for people to not do what they should be doing (i.e. carrying identification). I’m sick of the liberal agenda.