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North Carolina's battle over voting rights intensifies

The Washington Post: RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature has worked steadily and forcefully during the past seven years to redraw the state’s districts and impose voting restrictions and a slew of new policies that Republicans say are aimed at reducing voter fraud.

But at every turn, Democrats and voting rights advocates have stymied their plans, dragging them to court and condemning the GOP actions as discriminatory against the state’s minorities.

Instead of giving up — even after two major defeats this month in the U.S. Supreme Court — North Carolina’s Republican leaders are working to push the battle over the ballot box into a new phase.

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