Kelly Fetty has been keeping score:
On June 18 the North Carolina General Assembly passed new legislation adding a "reasonable impediment" affidavit to VIVA. Like South Carolina's Act R54, the affidavit allowed voters to claim a reasonable impediment kept them from getting a photo ID and entitled them to a provisional ballot.
The sudden change to the law, just three weeks before the start of court proceedings, prompted the Plaintiffs to ask Judge Schroeder to drop claims against the ID provision from the trial.
This affidavit has nothing to do with helping people vote, and everything to do with helping Republicans prop up their un-Democratic attack on voting rights. Unfortunately, it appears Judge Schroeder is more than willing to give them the benefit of the doubt:
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