The North Carolina Voter Identification Act is being challenged in court – immediately after the GOP has overturned the veto of the governor of the dem.

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper's veto over a new voter identification bill was overturned by Republican lawmakers on Wednesday. (AP Photo / Gerry Broome)

Republican lawmakers in North Carolina this week canceled Democratic governor Roy Cooper's veto on a new voter identification law – and were immediately challenged before a court of law. court.

Six voters described as black or biracial residents filed the lawsuit on Wednesday, minutes after the State House voted to void veto 72-40. The Senate and Senate voted against the decision on Tuesday, Raleigh's News & Observer newspaper reported.

Republicans blasted Cooper, who had denied the law last week while more than 55 percent of voters had approved it recently. referendum.

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"You have betrayed the majority of the honest and hardworking people of North Carolina who have enshrined this provision in our constitution," Republican State The Representative Jimmy Dixon told Cooper. "You should have a shameful head."

"You have betrayed the majority of the hard working and honest people in North Carolina who had written this provision in our constitution, you should be ashamed of your head."

– Representative of the State, Jimmy Dixon

The referendum asked the state constitution to add an amendment requiring a photo ID in person, increasing the number of eligible IDs and exceptions from legislation blocked at the beginning of the decade. Republicans believe the changes will ensure that everyone legally entitled to vote can vote.

Authorized identity cards include traditional driver's licenses and military identification, college and university student cards, and state and state employee cards. local governments. These identifiers must respect certain security thresholds.

Voters who initiated the lawsuit on Wednesday said the restrictions would disproportionately and unduly increase the voting rights of African-American and Indian residents of America. The lawsuit claims that the bill will add a financial cost to the vote in the form of lost work hours and the need to find a means of transportation to obtain a piece of identity.

State Democrats said the law was supposed to crack down on votes.

I do not have the right to lose the right or anyone else because they can not provide you with photo ID ", said the representative of the Democratic State, Mickey Michaux at News & Observer. "It seems like the story will repeat itself."

But Republicans refuted these claims, saying the Democrats were responsible for slavery and Jim Crow, the newspaper reported.

"Republicans are the party of emancipation," according to the Republican State. Representative Jeff Collins said. "I'm tired of being blamed for what the Democrats did."

"Republicans are the party of emancipation. I am tired of being blamed for acts of Democrats. "

– Representative of the State, Jeff Collins

The prosecution also requests that a panel of three judges composed of state judges precludes the enforcement of the law during the trial. All appeals would be brought before the Supreme Court of the State.

Fox News and Associated Press's Dom Calicchio contributed to the writing of this report.