Judge strikes down North Carolina felon voting law : vimarsa

Judge strikes down North Carolina felon voting law

A federal judge has struck down a North Carolina law criminalizing voting for people with felony convictions. The law, originally passed in 1877, made it a Class I felony for people who vote in North Carolina without having their rights restored. But on Monday, U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs wrote that the law “was enacted with discriminatory…

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