NC Politics Roundup: Lawmakers Consider New Voter ID Bill And Eric Holder Visits Raleigh

WUNC News | By Frank Stasio,

Charlie Shelton

Published July 18, 2017 at 12:36 PM EDT

Local elections boards are trying to figure out how to restore the early voting period.

State lawmakers are considering another voter ID bill that would be brought to voters as a constitutional amendment. In 2013 lawmakers passed a voter ID measure that was deemed unconstitutional last year by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals .

An update on state politics with WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii.Meanwhile former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the North Carolina Democratic Party’s annual fundraiser Saturday and criticized the impact of gerrymandering in the state.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii about the latest in state politics.

Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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Charlie Shelton