Lawyers for seven college students and three voter registration advocates are making the novel constitutional argument in the North Carolina Voter ID Case:
1. It violates the 26th Amendment, which lowered the voting age to 18 from 21.
2. The Amendment declares that the right to vote "shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on the account of age."
They will join the N.A.A.C.P., the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Justice Department.
There has never been a case like it, and if the students succeed, it will open another front in the highly partisan battle over voting rights.
The parties are scheduled to appear before U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder on Monday in a Winston-Salem federal courtroom. Monday’s hearing comes in response to claims that the legislature overstepped its constitutional bounds in adopting the overhaul bill last year.
Some of the changes affecting students include:
1. Not allowing students to use their college ID for voter ID.
2. Removing polling sites from college campuses.
3. Preregistration at 16 or 17. It was reinstated just before the hearing.
Multiple lawsuits including the age discrimination case have been combined into one case.
NYC Wins When Everyone Can Vote!
Michael H. Drucker
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