South Carolinians, Civil Rights Groups Challenge State’s Voter ID Law

September 25, 2012 Carmen Munir Russell-Sluchansky Uncategorized Comments Off on South Carolinians, Civil Rights Groups Challenge State’s Voter ID Law
Voters in South Carolina are challenging its voter identification laws. That case's arguments finished on Monday. Photo: U.S./Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
Voters in South Carolina are challenging its voter identification laws. That case's arguments finished on Monday. Photo: U.S./Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.

Courts across the country have six weeks until the U.S. presidential election to resolve the ongoing cases surrounding voter identification laws and South Carolina’s law is the latest to be challenged.

Civil rights groups and citizens are challenging South Carolina’s voter identification law and the arguments just wrapped up on Monday.

To discuss the case and whether or not the groups challenging the law can pull out a victory, host Carmen Russell-Sluchansky spoke with Garrard Beeney, lead attorney for the civil rights groups.

 

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Carmen is a multimedia journalist based in Washington, DC whose work has appeared in a variety of outlets including National Geographic, NBC News, the BBC, Asia! Magazine, The China Post, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel.

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