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Sir John Barron7/23/2013 8:57:18 am PDT

From ThinkProgress, here are the changes to Voting rules being considered by North Carolina, y’all:

•Implementing a strict voter ID requirement that bars citizens who don’t have a proper photo ID from casting a ballot.

•Eliminating same-day voter registration, which allowed residents to register at the polls.

•Cutting early voting by a full week.

•Increasing the influence of money in elections by raising the maximum campaign contribution to $5,000 and increasing the limit every two years.

•Making it easier for voter suppression groups like True The Vote to challenge any voter who they think may be ineligible by requiring that challengers simply be registered in the same county, rather than precinct, of those they challenge.

•Vastly increasing the number of “poll observers” and increasing what they’re permitted to do. In 2012, ThinkProgress caught the Romney campaign training such poll observers using highly misleading information.

•Only permitting citizens to vote in their specific precinct, rather than casting a ballot in any nearby ward or election district. This can lead to widespread confusion, particularly in urban areas where many precincts can often be housed in the same building.

•Barring young adults from pre-registering as 16- and 17-year-olds, which is permitted by current law, and repealing a state directive that high schools conduct voter registration drives in order to boost turnout among young voters.

•Prohibiting paid voter registration drives, which tend to register poor and minority citizens.

•Dismantling three state public financing programs, including the landmark program that funded judicial elections.

•Weakening disclosure requirements for outside spending groups.

•Preventing counties from extending polling hours in the event of long lines or other extraordinary circumstances and making it more difficult for them to accommodate elderly or disabled voters with satellite polling sites at nursing homes, for instance.