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NC Court May Void Constitutional Changes Over Gerrymandering Concerns

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The state Court of Appeals may invalidate changes to the state constitution voters approved last year. 

The changes set up a requirement for Voter IDs and made limits on income tax rates virtually permanent.

The NAACP is asking the court to void those measures, saying the state's political boundaries were so racially gerrymandered that the Republican-controlled legislature that put them on the ballot lacked validity.

Attorneys for legislative leaders say if the lawsuit succeeds any law passed by the General Assembly for years could be challenged.

A lawyer for the NAACP argues that the GOP lawmakers knew their legislative districts cheated black voters and would be overturned.

 

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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