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Jordan Wilkie

North Carolina voting rights ‘still in five-alarm fire’ despite supreme court ruling

Early voting for 2022 midterm elections in Chapel Hill North Carolina<br>FILE PHOTO: An election worker raises a sign for the next voter on the last day of the state's early voting for the 2022 midterm elections in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., November 5, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake/File Photo
North Carolina voting rights advocates celebrated a victory but warned of further attempts by Republicans to weaken voting protections. Photograph: Jonathan Drake/Reuters

The US supreme court ruled in favor of North Carolina voting rights groups last week, which celebrated with one breath and with the next condemned the new election laws and political maps being pushed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature.

“We are still in a five-alarm fire here in North Carolina,” said Gino Nuzzolillo, campaign manager for the state’s Common Cause branch, which was one of the plaintiffs that won in the case the supreme court ruled on.

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