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July 8, 2014

Hundreds Join "Moral Monday" Protest Against North Carolina Voter ID Law 
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In North Carolina, organizers say more than 1,000 people rallied in the
latest "Moral Monday" action to denounce a voter ID law they say is the
harshest since the Jim Crow era. The rally came as lawyers for the
Justice Department and civil rights groups asked a federal court to
block the law, which requires voters to show photo ID, curbs early
voting and eliminates same-day voter registration. The North Carolina
NAACP says the law is part of a long history of voter suppression aimed
at people of color who disproportionately lack photo ID.

 

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