NC voter ID law

The March 5 primary was the first statewide test of North Carolina's voter ID law. Of the 1.8 million people who voted, 473 had their ballots not counted because of photo ID. That’s one rejected ballot for every 3,800 voters.

Charlotte voters are the first in the state required to show a photo ID with early voting starting for the Sept. 12 mayoral and City Council primary election.

North Carolina's highest court has declared there are two paths that an individual justice can take when weighing a request to be removed from hearing a case due to an alleged conflict of interest. The state Supreme Court order was filed last week but emailed to attorneys Thursday. The order should help resume a long-watched case over whether the 2018 constitutional amendment requiring photo voter identification is legitimate.

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether North Carolina Republican legislative leaders can intervene in a federal court battle over a 2018 state voter ID mandate. House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger want to formally step into a pending federal case to defend the law.

The state NAACP’s request that Phil Berger Jr. and ex-Sen. Tamara Barringer be disqualified further clouds the future of photo voter ID requirements in one of the numerous Republican-dominated states where lawmakers have sought them.

North Carolina judges have struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law. Two of the three trial judges hearing a lawsuit declared on Friday that the December 2018 law is unconstitutional.

A trial on North Carolina's latest photo voter identification law concluded Friday. Now a panel of judges must decide: were Republicans in the legislature motivated at least partially by racial bias? Or were they purely trying to carry out the public's desire for secure elections?

Lawyers will be in North Carolina courts again this week, battling over photo ID laws. This comes as voting rights advocates challenge restrictive elections laws across the country, from Georgia to Arizona.

States like Georgia and Arizona are now considering bills to limit absentee by mail voting, but North Carolina — home to some of the most bitter fights over voting in the last decade — has been completely quiet in 2021. Political watchers in Raleigh wonder when that's going to change.

A federal judge wrongly blocked North Carolina's latest photo voter identification law, an appeals court ruled Wednesday, deciding she erred when declaring the requirement was tainted by racial bias because a previous voter ID law had been struck down on similar grounds.