WORLD & NATION
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Moriaix, France:
Around 100 formers in the French province of Brittany stormed and torched an insurance office last week, according to the BBC, to protest foiling prices for dieir
produce and the loss of the Russian market due to trade embargoes.They then dumped large piles of cabbages, manure and artichokes in the town center before
torching the town’s tax office. Given that the formers were blocking a main road, firefighters were unable to save tJie building.The French Prime Minister Manuel Vails has
condemned the attacks.
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New York, NY:
The United
Nations Climate
Summit met
on Tuesday.
In addition to
announcing $200
billion in private
and government
financing to work
against climate
change, the summit
included speeches
from Ban Ki-moon,
the U.N. Secretary-
General, former vice
President Al Gore and
newly appointed U.N.
Messenger of Peace
Leonardo DiCaprio.
The summit followed
the People’s Climate
March two days earlier,
where 400,000 people
demonstrated in the
streets of New York.
The summit hoped to
raise political will for a
universal agreement on
climate to be approved
in Paris next year,
according to the U. N.
news center.
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Bangalore, India:
Mangalyaan, India’s
first robot to
be sent to Mars,
successfully entered
the atmosphere early
Wednesday, according
to the BBC. India is
the one of only a few
countries, along with
the U.S., Russia and
Europe, to successfully
send a robot to the
red planet. It is also
the first nation to
be successful on
their first attempt.
“Today all of India
should celebrate
our scientists,’’ said
Narendra Modi, the
Indian Prime Minister.
NASA also tweeted
their congratulations
to ^eir counterpart,
^ Indian Space
,5 fond Research
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Syria:
The United States, along with a coalition of other countries including Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, Bahrain and United
Arab Emirates, launched the first 14 airstrikes against ISIL in Syria on Tuesday, according to Al Jazeera.The U.S. has been
launching airstrikes against the group in Iraq for some time, but this was the first air raid in Syria. Before the strikes, the
U.S. let Syrian U.N. envoys know about the attack.Targets included areas near Raqqa, ISIL’s capital in Syria, and resulted
in the death of at least 20 ISIL fighters, according to initial reports.
Recent legislation restricts voting rights of NC residents
BY ABE KENMORE
World & Nation Editor
Four hundred fifty-four.
That is the number of people denied
votes in the last North Carolina primary
due to new anti-fraud voting laws,
according to Democracy North Carolina.
The voters denied were
disproportionately minorities and
Democrats, with the largest disparity
among black voters. While only 19 percent
of the voters in this primary were black,
they accounted for 39 percent of the
rejected votes.
These numbers have raised questions
about whether the anti-fraud laws are
being used for their stated purpose.
"Republicans evaluated why they
lost the 2008 election, and they said the
Obama campaign ... used young voters
and African-American voters, who used
straight-ticket voting and same-day
registration (both things eliminated by the
new law)," Bob Hall, executive director
of Democracy North Carolina, told The
Guilfordian in a phone interview. "They
were definitely cherry-picking."
The DNC study focused on provisional
ballots which raise questions about a
voter's eligibility, and are subject to review
before being counted. According to Hall,
Democracy North Carolina sorted through
3,000 of these ballots.
Many of these provisional ballots were
counted after being reviewed, and others
would have been rejected before the new
voting laws. The 454 ballots selected,
however, were not counted for one of
two reasons — either the voter was in the
right county but the wrong precinct or
because they now could not use same-day
registration during early voting. In either
case, the ballot would have been counted
under the old voting laws.
The numbers of voters denied a vote
may have been higher than those recorded.
"There were probably many, many more
who didn't bother (filling out a provisional
ballot)," said Hall.
Given that not all elements of the
law have taken effect yet, including the
controversial policy of having to show ID
to vote, and that primary voters tend to be
more educated on the voting process, the
next major elections may show many more
people being turned away. *
This law has been criticized since it was
enacted in 2013.
"Obviously this is a decision many
people aren't happy with, and voter
registration was one of the major topics
discussed at Moral Monday (statewide
protests that began last year)," said junior
Moira O'Neill.
The types of fraud addressed by the
law, particularly impersonating someone
else in order to vote in their name, are not
common. The most recent statistics for the
2007 elections listed only two confirmed
instances of impersonation according to
the Institute for Southern Studies.
There are other types of fraud that may be
causing issues, however, including people
voting in two different states. Earlier this
year, the State Board of Elections released
a list of 35,750 people whose names and
birthdates matched those of voters in other
states during the 2012 elections. In 765 of
these cases, there was a match with the last
four digits of the voter's social security
number as well.
Even so, many feel the updates to the
voting law are unnecessary.
"We all want elections to be fair ... (but)
we think putting additional burdens on
voting is not the way to go," Sarah Preston,
policy director at the American Civil
Liberties Union of North Carolina, told The
Guilfordian in a phone interview. "Voters
should be choosing their representatives,
not the other way around."
Democracy North has published a guide
for student voters navigating the new laws
for this year's election. This year, students
are not required to present photo ID unless
they are new voters, but they must be
registered by Oct. 10.
Moira 0*Neil ‘ 16 (left) and Davia Young* 17 (right) protest the North Carolina anti-fraud voting laws disproportionately impacting minorities.