GOP lawmakers back voter ID amendment

Area Republican lawmakers say they support North Carolina having a constitutional amendment requiring photo identification in order to vote - a measure House Republicans have introduced less than two years after a federal court struck down a prior voter ID requirement as racially discriminatory. On Thursday, House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and GOP representatives introduced House Bill 1092, which would ask voters in November to vote on a constitutional amendment that "every person offering to vote in person shall present photo identification before voting in the manner prescribed by law."