A federal judge formally blocked North Carolina’s new voter identification law on Tuesday, ruling that discriminatory intent was likely a motivating factor in how the measure was crafted.
The decision from US district judge Loretta Biggs could have big consequences in North Carolina, a key state in the 2020 presidential election that is scheduled to hold its presidential primary on 3 March. Donald Trump carried the state in 2016, but Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, won in 2016, by just over 10,000 votes.
This week’s ruling was a blow to state Republicans, who overrode a veto from Cooper to enact the law last year. The measure came two years after North Carolina’s previous voter ID law was struck down as part of a host of voting restrictions a federal appeals court said targeted African Americans “with almost surgical precision”. African Americans make up about one-fifth of registered voters in North Carolina. Turnout among African Americans dropped six percentage points from 2012 to 2016.
>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden.
Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1]
The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump",
and said "I think [all of the moderators] do that [delete posts for political reasons]".
Reading into the source (Campaign for Accountability), it's clear why they neglected to mention the evidence -- because they are politically biased themselves. [2]
> The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump"
Well, they’re not. They have even carved out special exceptions to their content policy explicitly to prevent any punishment of Trump’s accounts even when he violates the policy.
Isn't it the duty of the agency responsible for conducting elections that has to do this?
FB should be ignored and media should not promote these articles. Sure, they can help if they want, but the primary information source should be the nodal election agency.
Americans have been brainwashed to view the government as some sort of an evil lunatic preventing all of them from becoming billionaires. This is a dangerous narrative and will ultimately lead the nation to dictatorship, as is already happening.
