MORE: Ruling from federal judge, dropped hours before 2020, effectively negates the #VoterID *law* passed by @NCGOP at the end of 2018 right before new @NCLeg was sworn in without @NCGOP veto-proof majorities. It does NOT negate the amendment passed by voters. @ABC11_WTVD #ncpol pic.twitter.com/UiabDApx9x — Jonah Kaplan (@KaplanABC11) December 31, 2019

For 2020, Judge Loretta C. Biggs, an @BarackObama appointee, is ordering an immediate stop to all @NCSBE mailings & communications that were preparing voters for #VoterID. Law can’t be implemented for March #supertuesday primary & maybe even Nov. @ABCPolitics @ABC11_WTVD #ncpol pic.twitter.com/tgqbw8Om3t — Jonah Kaplan (@KaplanABC11) December 31, 2019

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WTVD) -- A North Carolina judge formally struck down the law requiring voters to show a photo ID at polls.U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs released her written order Tuesday, granting an injunction against Gov. Roy Cooper, North Carolina State Board of Elections Chair Robert Cordle, North Carolina State Board of Elections Secretary Stella Anderson, and board members Kenneth Raymond, Jefferson Carmon III and David Black. According to the injunction, the defendants cannot implement the new voter-ID requirements and must stop any communications to the public that say a photo ID will be required for all 2020 elections.Election officials also have to work with local media and voter-education groups to inform voters that they will not need photo ID this election.Several North Carolina chapters of the NAACP filed the lawsuit the day after the voting ID requirement became law in December 2018.In her decision, Biggs said an injunction would be in the public interest, adding, "Electoral integrity is enhanced, not diminished, when all eligible voters are allowed to exercise their right to vote free from interference and burden unnecessarily imposed by others."Biggs also recognized the history discrimination in North Carolina."No one disputes that North Carolina 'has a long history of race discrimination generally and race-based vote suppression in particular,'" she wrote, quoting another court case.The order outlines a brief history of voter ID laws in North Carolina and the legal challenges to those laws.The new court order means that voters will not need a photo ID in the March 3 primary elections.To read Biggs' full court order, click here A spokesperson for State Senator Phil Berger released the following statement about Biggs' decision Tuesday evening:Reverend Dr. Anthony Spearman, president of the North Carolina NAACP released the following statement Tuesday evening: