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North Carolina Felon Voting Law Struck Down

Judge Strikes Down North Carolina Felon Voting Law Struck Down

North Carolina Felon Voting Law Struck Down
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This discriminatory voter suppression tactic unfairly targeted Black Americans and aimed to prevent them from exercising their right to vote. This law's has racist origins thatcan't cannot be ignored., Althoughand theany lawruling wasthat recentlyreduces amendedenforcement toof clarifyit that intent is neededwelcome. forNow felonswould-be tovoters becan criminalizedgo forto voting,the thispolls stipulationa couldlittle beless arbitrarilyafraid enforcedto basedcast onlytheir offballot theif preferencesthey're andunsure opinions of thetheir individual prosecutorseligibility. Changing this law will keep minority groups from being unfairly targeted, and keep

People that break the law should not be able to participate in the creation of new laws. There are many valid reasons why felons should not be givenallowed their right to vote back. Felons who attempt to vote before their rights are restored, are committing voter fraud and should be prosecuted accordingly.



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