North Car­oli­na could have five-year bat­tle over vot­er ID law resolved soon

More than five years after the North Car­oli­na NAACP and a few local chap­ters sued the state over a 2018 vot­er ID law, a tri­al for the law­suit chal­leng­ing the law begins on Mon­day. 
The law­suit, as well as sim­i­lar law­suits in state courts, had delayed imple­men­ta­tion of the law that required vot­ers to show a pic­ture ID until last year’s munic­i­pal elec­tions. Pho­to IDs were required for 1.8 mil­lion vot­ers who cast bal­lots dur­ing the state’s pri­ma­ry in March. State elec­tion data showed ID-relat­ed prob­lems only dis­qual­i­fied few­er than 500 pro­vi­sion­al bal­lots dur­ing the pri­ma­ry con­test.
U.S. Dis­trict Judge Loret­ta Big­gs is rul­ing on the case and is expect­ed to hear argu­ments from NAACP lawyers that the vot­er ID require­ment and two oth­er v …