strunkenwhite
Well-known member
"on the day after the Supreme Court issued Shelby County v. Holder, 133 S. Ct. 2612 (2013), eliminating preclearance obligations, a leader of the party that newly dominated the legislature (and the party that rarely enjoyed African American support) announced an intention to enact what he characterized as an “omnibus” election law. Before enacting that law, the legislature requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices. Upon receipt of the race data, the General Assembly enacted legislation that restricted voting and registration in five different ways, all of which disproportionately affected African Americans."There is no way to make a law that surgically targets "democratic blacks" who are primarily located in cities with bus services, DMVs every few miles, and regular cheap taxis that isn't also going to target rural Republicans who live 50 miles from the nearest DMV and have no mass transit or taxis at all.
The idea that Voter ID laws somehow target blacks without targeting rurals is nonsense.
"African Americans disproportionately lacked the most common kind of photo ID, those issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). Id. The pre-Shelby County version of SL 2013-381 provided that all government-issued IDs, even many that had been expired, would satisfy the requirement as an alternative to DMV-issued photo IDs. J.A. 2114-15. After Shelby County, with race data in hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans. Id. at *142; J.A. 2291-92. As amended, the bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess."
I mean, even in your own post, aren't you essentially asking me why people who have much more need of driving cars are more likely to have driver's licenses? That's a question that answers itself.