Court rules N.C. law disenfranchising voters with felony convictions is unconstitutional.
reported, Jones pointed out that while black people comprise 21 percent of the state’s voting-age population, they also represent 42 percent of the people who lost their voting rights because of a felony conviction. This fact “is no surprise,” Jones said, “because that’s exactly what it was designed to do.”
Republican lawmakers who opposed the challenge to the law argued in court that while the initial law barring those convicted of felonies from voting was designed as a racist law, it was updated in the 1970s to be less so. But still, disparities persist. “That the legislature has eliminated some parts of the original racist law from 1877 doesn’t give them a free pass on keeping the other ones,” Forward Justice’s co-director, Daryl Atkinson, said to the“The disparities by race are very, very high,” UNC political science professor Frank Baumgartner told the Press. “No matter how we look at the data, at the statewide level, black [voters] are just disenfranchised at a much higher rate compared to whites.
The ruling has not yet been written, but the judges announced their 2-1 decision on Monday. An attorney for the lead defendant in the case has
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