Federal judge upholds North Carolinas voter photo ID law Federal judge upholds North Carolina's voter photo ID law Despite qualifying North Carolina’s voting regulations as severe, they don’t surpass the “usual burdens of voting,” the judge said
North Carolina Judge Upholds Photo Voter ID Mandate A federal judge in North Carolina has upheld the state's photo voter identification law, rejecting arguments from civil rights groups that the requirement was enacted with discriminatory intent against Black and Latino voters The ruling is a major victory for Republican legislative leaders who passed the law in 2018, just weeks after voters approved a constitutional amendment backing the idea