AG Roy Cooper: Voting changes could cost NC millions
Published August 1, 2013
by Jen Wilson, Associate Editor, Charlotte Business Journal, July 30, 2013.
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper says he hopes Gov. Pat McCrory will veto legislation that overhauls the election system in the state, requiring a photo ID to vote, shortening the early voting time period and ending same-day registrations, among other measures.
If he doesn't, Cooper told a group of sheriffs in Wilmington, legal challenges to the law would be expensive to defend, News14 Carolina reports. "I would hope the governor would look at it very closely and veto it," he said. If he doesn't, Cooper said, "I could see millions of dollars in legal fees ... that are really unnecessary."
Cooper said his office is prepared to defend the state if it does get sued, but that "we've had some bad public policy pass this session," according to the report.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, which looks at how the voter ID law would affect students, also criticized the legislation.
August 1, 2013 at 10:20 am
Norm Kelly says:
So are you saying that fear of lawsuits should drive legislation? But only when it's Republicans implementing laws, right.
Democrats forced socialized medicine down our throats KNOWING in advance that it would generate a multitude of lawsuits. But they did it anyway. Where were all the opponents saying that this stupid law shouldn't be implemented because it might cause some lawsuits?
I have been under the impression that legislatures were supposed to do what's right for the state & it's citizens, within the constitution of our state, based on what's best for the majority. Doing what's possible to insure fair, fraud-free elections that can be trusted by those doing the voting seems to be what our constitution calls for.
Students may be affected by voter ID laws? What 16 year old do you know that's not bugging their parent(s) on a daily basis to get a license starting on their 15th birthday? Isn't it LAW that every child born in the US is required to get a SocSec card? So for years now legal babies have been getting proof of citizenship the same month they are born, so they have documentation to prove who they are and where they were born, and when they were born, when it's time to go to DMV to get a license. I'm willing to admit that I don't know all the facts about students being negatively affected by this change in voting requirements. But just like BHO who isn't afraid to make a statement from ignorance, I'll stand on my opinion until concrete evidence of voter suppression is brought forth. Diff between me & BHO is that I'm willing to change my mind when presented with evidence. He continues in his ignorance (but when facts are known, ignorance becomes stupidity!)
So the Republicans are doing things in this session than the Democrats did when they were in power. So. Who's surprised? If the Repubs did things the same as the Dems would do them, why would I vote for a different party? If it can be proven that Dems were doing little more than giving lip service to "doing what's right", but the facts prove that all they did was spend money and hope that it did good, why wouldn't we want change? Organizations were given money by the Dems without any oversight (or very little), with little to no accountability. Shouldn't this have been changed? But there was so much wrong with the way Dems ran the state for about 100 years, that Repubs have an awful lot to do.
If you all gave Dems 100 years to mess things up, why not give the Repubs at least 10 to try to get it back on track? Why the rush? Would you actually be happier if they did rush & took care of EVERYTHING that Dems screwed up all at once?
