RALEIGH – The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (ACLU-NC) today released its 2013 legislative report card, which rates members of the North Carolina General Assembly based on their votes on various pieces of legislation the ACLU-NC supported or opposed in the most recent session.

This year’s report card rates legislators based on how they voted on legislation in five issue areas: voting rights, reproductive rights, racial justice, privacy rights, and religious liberty. While the ACLU-NC supported several bills this year that would have improved protections of or expanded civil liberties, many with bipartisan support, none of the bills were given a final vote in the House and Senate. As a result, the report card rates legislators exclusively on how they voted on legislation the ACLU-NC opposed.

In the House, 15 members, or 12.5% of the body, had a 100% voting record in line with ACLU-NC positions, while 57 House members, or 47.5% of the body, had a 0% voting record.

In the Senate, 24 members, or 48% of the body, had a 0% voting record in line with ACLU-NC positions, while only one member, Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, who resigned at the end of this year’s session, had a voting record that was 100% in line with ACLU-NC positions. 

Those numbers do not include members who were absent for votes or who did not vote on one of the bills included in the ratings system.  

Read the report card here.