As if reading from the ALEC playbook, North Carolina instituted what Ian Millhiser with the Center for American Progress called the nation’s “worst voter suppression law.” Driving that decision was the grim reality for the Republicans that in the twenty-first century, black voter registration had increased by 51.1 percent in the state and black people also had a higher voter turnout “rate than white registered voters in both the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections,” reported Brynna Quillin in a Kennedy School Review post.
