In my State of North Carolina, a Federal court found that our voter ID law in particular targeted African-American voters with almost surgical precision.
G. K. Butterfield: “In my State of North Carolina, a Federal court found that our voter ID law in particular targeted African-American…”
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Butterfield discusses a court ruling on North Carolina's voter ID law targeting minorities.
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