Judge strikes down voter ID, tax rate limits
RALEIGH — A North Carolina judge on Friday voided new state mandates requiring photo identification to vote and also limiting income tax rates. He ruled the GOP-controlled legislature lacked authority to put those constitutional amendments on the ballot because lawmakers had been elected from racially-biased districts two years earlier.Wake County Superior Court Judge Bryan Collins sided with the state NAACP, which had argued that the General Assembly was “illegally […]
