A poll out Tuesday found that half of North Carolina voters are opposed to the voting bill that was just signed into law by Gov. Pat McCrory (R).
The latest from Democratic-leaning Public Policy Polling found that 50 percent of Tar Heel State voters are against the measure that “shortened early voting by a week, eliminated same-day voter registration, required a photo ID to vote, eliminated straight-party-ticket voting, and allowed voters to be challenged by any registered voter of the county in which they vote rather than just their precinct.” Thirty-nine percent said they backed the bill.
PPP acknowledged that support for measures to require voter identification is high, pointing to its findings from January of 2011 that found 66 percent of North Carolina voters in favor of such a proposal. But when the pollsters detailed the other provisions in the law that was passed the state’s GOP-controlled legislature and signed Monday by McCrory, support flipped.
