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The Washington Post wrote: .....the court found that North Carolina lawmakers requested data on racial differences in voting behaviors in the state. "This data showed that African Americans disproportionately lacked the most common kind of photo ID, those issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV)," the judges wrote.

So the legislators made it so that the only acceptable forms of voter identification were the ones disproportionately used by white people. "With race data in hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans," the judges wrote. "The bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess."

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.....The data also showed that black voters were more likely to make use of early voting — particularly the first seven days out of North Carolina's 17-day voting period. So lawmakers eliminated these seven days of voting. "After receipt of this racial data, the General Assembly amended the bill to eliminate the first week of early voting, shortening the total early voting period from seventeen to ten days," the court found.

FedoraDave wrote:Both of these are disturbing news stories (especially the one The Prof posted).

As far as the Alabama story, there's one very telling (to me) sentence in there from the Alabama Brewers Guild Executive Director Dan Roberts. "It's a huge deal logistically. Also, there are purchasers who just won't do it. They'd go to Publix instead of buying at a brewery," he said.

It stands to reason that Publix isn't going to be selling local craft-brewed beer.

Follow the money, folks. Dollars to doughnuts the megas are lining the pockets of the politicians to suppress the craft brewery movement.