Nine Term North Carolina Senator Resigns To Fight New Voter Suppression Law: In a message posted on her website, former NC State Sen. Ellie Kinnaird (D) wrote that a major focus of her post-legislative work will be “a grass-roots project to make sure everyone in the state has a proper voter ID so that no votes are denied, even though” a recently enacted voter suppression law “is aimed at exactly that – repressing the vote.”