The mail-in applications and ballots of Asian, Latino and Black Texans were rejected because of the new ID requirement at much higher rates than those of white voters in Texas' March primary.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2022/10/20/voting-texas-ballot-rejections/

Report details ‘extremist’ GOP plot to nationalize voter suppression

The report, entitled Extremists' Plot to Nationalize Voter Suppression: 2023 and Beyond, argues that former President Donald Trump's so-called Big Lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen "lives on in a wave of voter suppression legislation nationwide."

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https://www.rawstory.com/voter-suppression-2658519697/

Report:
https://www.commoncause.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Report-Federal-Anti-Voter-Bills.pdf

Report details ‘extremist’ GOP plot to nationalize voter suppression

The advocacy group Common Cause warned Thursday in a new report that U.S. congressional Republicans are introducing dozens of bills that, if the GOP regains control of Congress after the midterm elections, pose a "serious threat to the freedom to vote for millions of Americans.""Congressional Republ...

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North Carolina Supreme Court rejects 'racially discriminatory' voter ID law and state electoral map

Both cases were decided 4-3 along party lines, with all the high court’s Democratic justices voting in the majority and all #Republicans dissenting.

The court upheld a lower court's 2021 ruling that a 2018 law requiring voters to present photo ID was unconstitutional.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/north-carolina-supreme-court-rejects-racially-discriminatory-voter-id-rcna62224

North Carolina Supreme Court rejects 'racially discriminatory' voter ID law and state electoral map

The North Carolina Supreme Court struck down a voter ID law it said discriminated against Black voters and ordered a state map redrawn over GOP gerrymandering.

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