Saturday, October 4, 2014

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram on Lawsuits and Policies: The Latest Court Ruling on Voting Provisions

Gurumurthy Kalyanaram reports on lawsuits and policies and in this brief particularly on the latest court ruling on voting provisions.

Several civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against a law passed by the North Carolina Legislature.  In their lawsuit, the civil rights groups argued that elimination of easy ballot access provisions by the legislature will harm the voters in general, and the black voters even more so.  The two issues in the complaint related to the elimination of same-day registration and out-of-precinct provisional voting.