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News Hotline created in response to controversial N.C. voter ID bill
Posted By LaConteau Williams on Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:25 AM
In response to North Carolina's controversial voter ID law, which eliminates a week of early voting and requires voters to show IDs at the polls, the Advancement Project and N.C. NAACP have created a voter-education hotline.
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Legal advisers from the Advancement Project, a national civil rights organization that focuses on issues of democracy and race, will explain the bill to callers and give them advice on how to vote. The advisers will also ask callers how the bill has affected their ability to vote.
"We want to know the depth of how this new voter ID law is affecting North Carolina citizens," said Donita Judge, a staff attorney with the Advancement Project. "With the information obtained from callers, we can potentially use that knowledge they give us to show why this law is so bad."
In addition to requiring IDs at the polls and restricting early voting, the law also eradicates same-day registration, prohibits the extension of poll hours and excludes 16 and 17 year olds from pre-registering to vote. Some argue the bill unfairly targets demographics, including the elderly, students and minorities, that typically take advantage of much of what the bill eliminates.
The hotline phone number is 1-855-NO.ID.4.US or 1-855-664-3487.
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