The lawsuit filed by United States DOJ and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others. It is seeking to block implementation of the law in the 2014 election. A hearing is scheduled Monday before U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder in Winston-Salem. On January 9, 2007, Schroeder was nominated by President George W. Bush to a seat on the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina.
The law, passed by a Republican –run legislature, passed last year immediately after a Supreme Court ruling that struck down parts of the voting rights act of 1965 that required states with is history of voter suppression, which includes North Carolina, to submit any changes to voting laws to the Justice Department for approval.
Isn't it amusing that a party that got itself elected utilizing that very 'Broken' election system is now screaming loudest to stop voter fraud. Go figure?
It is almost as though they had already pinpointed the problems and exploited then to overrun the last election. Perhaps it is time to review the vote count being careful to look for rampart Republican voter fraud They surly know how to do it, remember the Al Gore Fla debacle LOL
In 2012, nearly 7 million ballots were cast in the general and two primary elections. Of those 6,947,317 ballots, the state Board of Elections said 121 alleged cases of voter fraud were referred to the appropriate district attorney's office.
That means of the nearly 7 million votes cast, voter fraud accounted for 0.00174 percent of the ballots. That is, for the mathematically challenged, 1 case of alleged fraud in every 57,000 votes cast.
That said, you can see their is very little reason for the law.However it is in alignment with GOP tactic . To make what you are doing sound good to voter like'Stop voter Fraud' while in practical reality doing something very bad like'Voter Suppression' .Tomorrows ruling should be interesting to say the least but we don’t have much faith in the outcome that is being hear by a Bush appointee.