The ugliest, most appalling spectacle in American politics – Eugene Robinson / Wash Post

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voter ID 2.jpgreMembers of North Carolina student chapters of the NAACP and opponents of voter ID legislation in the gallery of the House chamber of the North Carolina General Assembly in Raleigh in April 2013.

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