Election. She works three jobs to make ends meet. On meet. On election day she did not know where her correct polling place west so she voted close to her job. Even if they had told her she was a voting in the incorrect precinct she would not have had time to go to the correct precinct because it is there be penalties of being later to work. The same the one in washington. Thank you very much honor. [inaudible] i am good morning your honor. I am here on behalf of the North Carolina state conference of the naacp and other plaintiffs in that case. Many of whom are here in the courtroom today. I will primarily address the section to claim but hope to, briefly in the racial intent. We do, the North Carolina double its naacp is looking at both the section to racial claim. Youll open your comments will focus on section two . Yes i plan to primarily focus on results. Your honors, the plaintiff, after being with you in 2014 went to trial, to trials and in those trials we applied the framework
Not fallen action is easier for them to get a job with aer felony on the record and i do understand the retroactively reduces penalty that is say that is what we told you about at the time i industry and we can have a discussion about that but when we talk about retroactive reductions for drug penalties hydroxy how anybody could possiblyly object to that. Let me know if you think it is wise to reform the mandatory minimum as well as general society and if it is it is not a bigger problem if you decide youre changing belloc. Panel, reporting to this audience my understanding of what is going on is that there is a very large number of United States senators that do in fact support that legislation, just as various bills in the house. There is a very large number of members of the house of of representatives from both parties that support those bills. The gentleman who has the question is properly noting what the hurdle is. What does it take to get to the leadership in either chamber i wo
Misunderstood your argument, was that voting, one of the problems was the board of elections was given this authority to move voting sites around, and they could in that way discriminate against minority voters. Is that not part of your plan . With that is not part of our claim. In fact, in the reverse sort of the state has relied more on the fact that the location of Early Voting Centers and arguing that they, you know, were used to benefit africanamerican and democratic voters. Were not making a claim about the location of the Early Voting Centers. If anything, we think that the states reliance on that kind of argument is basically an admission of what the facts in this race showed, that race and party then i dont understand why that isnt part of your race and party argument. Well thats what im asking you about. Were not claiming that the new locations, the old locations discriminated against africanamerican voters. What were claiming is the cutbacks to early voting, eliminating seve
So its not that we surrender and we dont have some of the alternatives and some of the responses, so, again, academically, i think you are absolutely right. We have to go into that, but again, in the interests of time, we have to conclude this socalled. Were running much further than academic and were going to ask now general gray to have the last word. I want to thank not only the panel e8 but the audience as well. Its been a super set of discussions and view points and the like. I couldnt help but think that cult oors are really important here and i think we have to understand the cultures of america and the free world as we know it today and the democratic environment and related governments and the like and the cultures that we have grown up with. And understand very clearly that there are other cultures out there which are maybe equally important and certainly different. We will never get the to first base in this entire challenge without understanding the cultures, the arabic cul