N Carolina voter ID ruling means another election disruption
The reason is last week's federal appeals court ruling that struck down North Carolina's voter photo identification mandate, and other voting rules changes approved more than three years ago.
The civil rights groups hailed the ruling by the three-judge panel on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that minorities were disproportionately harmed by the restrictive voting ID laws.
Nonetheless, it marks yet another election disruption in the presidential battleground state with other big races this fall for governor and U.S. Senate.
Election officials are scrambling to comply with the ruling, in effect returning to the voting rules as they existed before August 2013.
Other federal court decisions this year siding against North Carolina had already made it more difficult for voters to navigate the elections process.
Because I think a lot of people don't even know about the voter ID laws.