LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF NORTH CAROLINA; A. Philip Randolph Institute; Unifour Onestop Collaborative; Common Cause North Carolina; Goldie Wells; Kay Brandon; Octavia Rainey; Sara Stohler; Hugh Stohler, Plaintiffs, and
Louis M. Duke; Charles M. Gray; Asgod Barrantes; Josue E. Berduo; Brian M. Miller; Nancy J. Lund; Becky Hurley Mock; Mary-Wren Ritchie; Lynne M. Walter; Ebony N. West, Intervenors/Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
State of NORTH CAROLINA; Joshua B. Howard, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Rhonda K. Amoroso, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Joshua D. Malcolm, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Paul J. Foley, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Maja Kricker, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Patrick L. McCrory, in his official capacity as Governor of the state of North Carolina, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Of America, Amicus Curiae,
Brennan Center for Justice at Nyu School of Law, Amicus Supporting Appellants,
Judicial Watch, Incorporated; Allied Educational Foundation; Christina Kelley Gallegos-Merrill, Amici Supporting Appellees.
North Carolina State Conference of Branches of the Naacp; Rosanell Eaton; Emmanuel Baptist Church; Bethel A. Baptist Church; Covenant Presbyterian Church; Clinton Tabernacle Ame Zion Church; Barbee's Chapel Missionary Baptist Church, Inc.; Armenta Eaton; Carolyn Coleman; Jocelyn Fergusonkelly; Faith Jackson; Mary Perry; Maria Teresa Unger Palmer, Plaintiffs — Appellants, and
New Oxley Hill Baptist Church; Baheeyah Madany; John Doe 1; Jane Doe 1; John Doe 2; Jane Doe 2; John Doe 3; Jane Doe 3, Plaintiffs,
v.
Patrick L. McCrory, in his official capacity as Governor of the state of North Carolina; Joshua B. Howard, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Rhonda K. Amoroso, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Joshua D. Malcolm, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; PAUL J. FOLEY, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Maja Kricker, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections, Defendants-Appellees.
United States of America, Amicus Curiae,
Brennan Center for Justice at Nyu School of Law, Amicus Supporting Appellants,
Judicial Watch, Incorporated; Allied Educational Foundation; Christina Kelley Gallegos-Merrill, Amici Supporting Appellees.
League of Women Voters of North Carolina; A. Philip Randolph Institute; Unifour Onestop Collaborative; Common Cause North Carolina; Goldie Wells; Octavia Rainey; Hugh Stohler; Kay Brandon; Sara Stohler, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and
Louis M. Duke; Charles M. Gray; Asgod Barrantes; Josue E. Berduo; Brian M. Miller; Nancy J. Lund; Becky Hurley Mock; Mary-Wren Ritchie; Lynne M. Walter; Ebony N. West, Intervenors/Plaintiffs,
v.
State Of North Carolina; Joshua B. Howard, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Rhonda K. Amoroso, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Joshua D. Malcolm, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Paul J. Foley, in his official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Maja Kricker, in her official capacity as a member of the State Board of Elections; Patrick L. McCrory, in his official capacity as Governor of the state of North Carolina, Defendants-Appellees.
United States of America, Amicus Curiae,
Brennan Center for Justice at Nyu School of Law, Amicus Supporting Appellants,
Judicial Watch, Incorporated; Allied Educational Foundation; Christina Kelley Gallegos-Merrill, Amici Supporting Appellees.
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Reversed in part, affirmed in part, and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge WYNN wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge FLOYD joined. Judge MOTZ wrote a dissenting opinion.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
WYNN, Circuit Judge:
The right to vote is fundamental. "No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined." Wesberry v. Sanders,376 U.S. 1, 17, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11 L.Ed.2d 481 (1964). And a tight time-frame before an election does not diminish...
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