Voter Suppression in the United States has been in an issue for a long time, but the majority of the people fail to recognize what could happen if these bills pass. In small and major elections, voter fraud is something the states are trying to minimize. In order for this to happen, the states pass laws to avoid fraud, but in many cases, these laws prevent certain types of people from voting or scaring them off. In North Carolina, the voter suppression tactic is very recent. There was a law that was passed called the House Bill 589 that was clearly racially biased and bigoted by the writers. The law was passed on July 25, 2013, by a lead from 73 to 41. All black members voted against the bill and all white members voted for it to pass.
The law was dubbed the “monster law” because many critics and judges have not seen a law this racially biased and …show more content…
The House Bill 589 was very good at cutting out the certain demographics that they wanted to target. The law was written by all Republicans who targeted the minorities who voted for the Democrats. The Id part was crucial in this bill since between “318,643 and 612,955 registered voters appeared to lack IDs”(Wan) from North Carolina’s DMV. Also, the minority population who lacked Id’s was significantly higher than the whites. Most of the black population in North Carolina used different identification which were not accepted in the new law. Another way that this bill specifically targeted black people was how it decreased the number of days in which early voting occurs, they reduced it from 17 days to 10 days. The black population tended to “disproportionally use early voting, especially the first 7 of the 17 days”(The Challenge to HB 589). Why was there a need to cut down the days of when early voting was there? The new law also cut one of the major Sundays when the black churches have their “Souls to Polls”(Wan) drive where they encourage the black population to
The law was dubbed the “monster law” because many critics and judges have not seen a law this racially biased and …show more content…
The House Bill 589 was very good at cutting out the certain demographics that they wanted to target. The law was written by all Republicans who targeted the minorities who voted for the Democrats. The Id part was crucial in this bill since between “318,643 and 612,955 registered voters appeared to lack IDs”(Wan) from North Carolina’s DMV. Also, the minority population who lacked Id’s was significantly higher than the whites. Most of the black population in North Carolina used different identification which were not accepted in the new law. Another way that this bill specifically targeted black people was how it decreased the number of days in which early voting occurs, they reduced it from 17 days to 10 days. The black population tended to “disproportionally use early voting, especially the first 7 of the 17 days”(The Challenge to HB 589). Why was there a need to cut down the days of when early voting was there? The new law also cut one of the major Sundays when the black churches have their “Souls to Polls”(Wan) drive where they encourage the black population to