HB589, a voter ID bill, is one of the most vile and partisan pieces of legislation I've seen come out of the NC General Assembly. In addition to requiring IDs to vote, it also:
•No more pre-registration for 16 & 17 year olds
•Eliminates same day voter registration
•Voter can be challenged by any registered voter of the county rather than precinct
•Slices a week off Early Voting
•Eliminates straight party ticket voting
•Increase maximum campaign contribution to $5000 instead of $4000
•Weakens disclosure requirements for Independent Expenditure committees
•Expands the scope of who may examine registration records and challenge voters
•Repeals out-of-precinct provisional voting
•Repeals mandate for high-school registration drives
•Eliminates flexibility in opening EV sites at different hours within a county
•Makes it more difficult to add satellite polling sites for elderly or voters with disabilities
•Limits who can assist a voter adjudicated to be incompetent by court
•Repeals 3 public financing programs
•Repeals disclosure requirements under Candidate Specific Communications
•No more paid voter registration drives
This whole voter surppression effort is one of the main reasons why I'm not a Republican, despite being fiscally centrist/socially conservative.
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