Narrative Crackup: Low Income & Minorities Support Voter ID More than Wealthy and Whites

So much for the narrative that Voter ID is a war against poor minorities – because they support it more than whites according to a Marist poll for McClatchy.  Nobody tell Rachel Maddow.

Here is the poll.  Page five shows minority support for Voter ID at 83%.  White support, 82%.     Low income support: 84%.  Higher income support: 82%.

Ok, so the delta’s are small, 1% and 2% respectively.  What isn’t small is the aggregate support across all demographics.  This is the battleground the Voter ID opponents and voter fraud deniers have chosen to fight on.  Marshaling 16% of voters is hardly a rational way to mobilize the base for the 2014 elections, which of course is the only reason they have picked this fight – for politics.  Let’s see if the voter fraud deniers and voter ID opponents blow a retreat from the fight when they absorb more data on what American’s really believe.

North Carolina Governor: “Photo ID is common sense law”

“North Carolinians overwhelmingly support a common sense law that
requires voters to present photo identification in order to cast a
ballot,” McCrory said in a statement. “I am proud to sign this
legislation into law. Common practices like boarding an airplane and
purchasing Sudafed require photo ID and we should expect nothing less
for the protection of our right to vote.” North Carolina becomes one of 34 states with some form of voter ID law. link.

League of Women Voters believes NC Democrats are entitled under the Constitution to more early voting when dozens of states have zero early voting

North Carolina is sued by the League of Women Voters, the ACLU and minority groups for simply reducing the days, not necessarily the hours of early voting.  Interesting enough, according a survey of states by the NCSL, there are at least a dozen states that do not include even one day of early voting and states that do not provide for absentee voting unless there is a valid excuse. 

Are all these states violating the constitutional rights of voters to have early voting?  Do voters have a absolute right to three weeks of early voting versus two weeks of early voting.  Early voting is a recent new way of voting and less than a decade ago, there was no early voting anywhere in the country.

The complaint is here.

Update:  Early Voting has not been widespread in the United States but in 1992 about 7% of votes were early votes.  By 2000, that had risen to 16%.  Early Voting is a more form of voting in the last two decades.  Time flies.