Attorney: NC photo ID wouldn't stop two-state voting

Posted 3:01 p.m. yesterday
Updated 4:41 p.m. yesterday

... Anita Earls, executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, said the photo ID demand wouldn't make a difference in preventing two-state voting ...

Speaking at a Legislative Building news conference, Earls argued that the law actually may encourage fraud by making it easier to vote by mail through absentee ballots. The law doesn't require someone who wants to vote by mail to offer a photo ID. Rather, the person must provide other identifying documents or numbers ...

"This is not an either or situation. We can protect the voting rights of voters of color in this state and stop fraud," Earls said. "There’s no conflict between having a strong Voting Rights Act that covers North Carolina that protects all of our electorate and that stops fraud. That’s just not what the policies that have currently been passed do" ...

http://www.wral.com/attorney-nc-photo-id-wouldn-t-stop-two-state-voting/13536743/