North Carolina GOP Brags About How Few Black People Were Able to Vote Early

Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional; its formulacan no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to pre-clearance.

North Carolina is one of the states to pass tough voter registration rules in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Shelby v Holder.

A review of these documents shows that North Carolina GOP leaders launched a meticulous and coordinated effort to deter black voters, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. The law, created and passed entirely by white legislators, evoked the state's ugly history of blocking African-Americans from voting - practices that had taken a civil rights movement and extensive federal intervention to stop.

Thomas Schroeder said the state’s strict new voting law did not unfairly prevent black voters from casting ballots.

Argued:June 21, 2016Decided:July 29, 2016

Faced with this record, we can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent.

African American Early Voting is down 8.5% from this time in 2012. 

NCGOP Sees Encouraging Early Voting

The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election.