By Daryl Hannah
North Carolina voters will again be allowed to register and vote on the same day and cast ballots in precincts other than the ones to which they are assigned, thanks to a federal appeals court decision that blocked newly proposed changes to the state’s voting-rights laws.
In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit ordered that the state reinstate same-day voter registration and count ballots cast in the wrong precincts, saying: “Whether the number is thirty or thirty-thousand, surely some North Carolina minority voters will be disproportionately adversely affected in the upcoming election.”
