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A federal appeals court just announced that it has struck down a requirement in North Carolina for citizens to show their identification before voting. The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 2013 law was “passed with racially discriminatory intent” and violates the U.S. Constitution and Voting Rights Act.

The decision was unanimous among the judges, all of whom were Democratic appointees.

The ruling bars North Carolina from requiring voters to provide photo ID in future elections, including November’s general election.

Although the law allows for a variety of types of identification to be used and provisional ballots for those with a “reasonable impediment” to obtaining ID, opponents argued that it unfairly burdens minority voters.

Judge Diana Motz, appointed to the federal bench in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, wrote in the ruling:

The record makes clear that the historical origin of the challenged provisions in this statute is not the innocuous back-and-forth of routine partisan struggle that the State suggests and that the district court accepted. Rather, the General Assembly enacted them in the immediate aftermath of unprecedented African American voter participation in a state with a troubled racial history and racially polarized voting. The district court clearly erred in ignoring or dismissing this historical background evidence, all of which supports a finding of discriminatory intent.

There are options for North Carolina to appeal, but because the November election is coming soon it’s unlikely any decision or reversal will be reached before then.

The Obama administration, along with the state NAACP, pushed for the North Carolina law to be repealed.

Seventeen other states have enacted voter ID laws in recent years to prevent vote fraud, and many are facing legal challenges. On July 20, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas’ voter identification law violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act.

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When the North Carolina law was initially upheld in April, Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the legislation, said in a statement that “requiring a photo ID in order to vote is not only common-sense, it’s constitutional. Common practices like boarding an airplane and purchasing Sudafed require photo ID and thankfully a federal court has ensured our citizens will have the same protection for their basic right to vote.”

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