North Carolina will ask Supreme Court to allow voter ID law to stand - One America News Network

I am glad to learn that the state of North Carolina Republican Governor Pat McCrory will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an appellate court ruling that struck down the state’s voter ID law a week ago. I have worked the polls in Virginia for many years - usually as Republican Precinct Captain but sometimes as a poll watcher. I have worked alongside my Democrat counterpart to dampen tensions by welcoming everybody and calming tensions for many years.
Before Virginia enacted the Voter ID law we had incidents of people voting in multiple places. Since the Voter ID law was enforced I have used my Disabled Veteran ID card to prove who I was. The poll watchers caught a few people trying to scam the system and they were rejected. Sometimes people come up and say they forgot their ID which is weird since they drove there and picture ID is on all drivers licenses. Once or twice it has been a passenger in a vehicle. In that case we told the person they could go home and get the proof. They never returned. [I man the polls from before dawn to the polls close after dusk :-)
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"North Carolina Will Ask Supreme Court To Allow Voter ID Law To Stand
August 5, 2016
By Colleen Jenkins
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) – North Carolina will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to stay an appellate court ruling that struck down the state’s voter ID law a week ago, Republican Governor Pat McCrory said on Friday.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused the state’s request to put its decision on hold while North Carolina asks the Supreme Court to overturn it ahead of the U.S. presidential election in November.
McCrory said the state will ask justices by early next week to stay the appeals court’s ruling, which found that sweeping changes to the state’s voting rules in 2013 intentionally discriminated against African-Americans.
Five votes on the eight-member Supreme Court are needed to grant a stay application.
“Changing our state’s election laws close to the upcoming election, including common sense voter ID, will create confusion for voters and poll workers,” the governor said in a statement. “The court should have stayed their ruling, which is legally flawed, factually wrong and disparaging to our state.”
In addition to striking down the state’s requirement that voters show photo identification when casting ballots, the appeals court also canceled provisions of the law that scaled back early voting, prevented residents from registering and voting on the same day and eliminated the ability of voters to vote outside their assigned precinct.
Voting advocates say those provisions are important for providing more access to the polls for minorities and poor people, who rely more on flexible voting methods and are less likely to possess state-issued photo IDs.
Proponents of voter ID laws say they are intended to prevent voter fraud."