A political science professor from Georgia provided evidence Monday for North Carolina in the voting rights trial in Forsyth County. A professor at the University of Georgia says he has found no evidence that the new election law in North Carolina had an impact on turnout in the 2014 election.
Trey Hood testified Monday that he could find no evidence that North Carolina's shortened early voting period discouraged a significant number of people to vote.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports that Hood also said black voters cast ballots during the shortened period of early voting at higher rates than whites in 2014.
The plaintiffs argued that the law which took effect in 2013 imposes undue burdens on black and Hispanic people, poor people and young people, and that state Republican legislators had discriminatory intent in passing the law. They rested their case Friday
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