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Fourth Circuit: N.C. Voter ID Law Targets Blacks with “Surgical Precision”

By EditorOn August 1, 2016February 10, 2021
Fourth Circuit: N.C. Voter ID Law Targets Blacks with “Surgical Precision”

North Carolina – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit has overturned the lower court ruling that had upheld North Carolina’s comprehensive voter identification requirements.  The panel commented that this law targeted African-American voters with “surgical precision.”

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Read the court opinion here.

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