NC attorney says local voter ID laws have problems

Our attorney general is full of crap!  You need ID to access social services, to see doctors in the Carolina East system, to pick up prescriptions at drug stores, to cash a check, to pick up a package at the post office.  My local computer shop requires photo ID to pick up your repaired computer!  I am sure you can think of even more!!!!!  The only reason to prevent voter photo ID -- is to perpetuate the voter fraud that North Carolina Democrats are know for!  Read more and comment please!  ~Lynn

RALEIGH, N.C. — Any effort by state legislators to make citizens show photo identification before voting by passing legislation that applies to some counties but not others likely would be unconstitutional, according to the top deputy of Attorney General Roy Cooper.


The legal opinion by Chief Deputy Attorney General Grayson Kelley addresses a potential way that lawmakers could attempt to get around Gov. Beverly Perdue's veto of a statewide photo ID bill in June that Republican lawmakers were unable to override in July. They haven't ruled out trying to override her veto again.

Bills that apply to local matters generally can't be vetoed by the governor. Over the past several weeks, commissioners in a few counties — such as Rowan, Davidson, Gaston and Craven — have requested such legislation, although GOP leaders in the General Assembly haven't acted on those requests.

CONTINUED:  http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/story/10442261/

From the liberal ‘Progressive Pulse’: We had this piece earlier today about the N.C. Attorney General’s office finding that an apparent political strategy to try to push voter identification rules through local bills in the legislature unconstitutional. Now, Gov. Bev Perdue has weighed in, and she too finds it unconstitutional. Perdue, the Democratic governor, vetoed the bill in June that the GOP-led legislature passed and would have required that voters show picture ID at the polls. Here’s a written statement, released this afternoon by Perdue’s press office:

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2011/11/30/perdue-on-local-voter-id-bills/

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