Democracy wins for ECSU student, but what about the rest of NC?
Published: September 9, 2013
Updated 7 hours ago
The North Carolina Republican Party and its elected legislators haven’t been subtle about their aim to suppress voting. The GOP majority in the General Assembly and the Republican governor approved a Voter ID law, ended straight-ticket voting and pre-registration by 16- and 17-year-olds and cut back on opportunities to vote early ...
Young people might vote Democratic? Solution: Cut campus voting sites and make it more difficult for students to vote. The elderly and minorities show up as more Democratic than Republican? Solution: Require a voter ID and tell people it’s to prevent fraud even though instances of fraud are extremely rare ...
The aggressive efforts in Raleigh to distort election results through gerrymandering and new rules and arrangements for voting have emboldened local boards to try their own hands at suppressing the vote. Sometimes these efforts are so clumsy even the Republican-controlled State Board of Elections or its Republican-appointed director objects ...
Bob Hall of Democracy North Carolina, a voting rights advocacy group, said the Republican pattern is clear: Make it harder to vote when interpretation allows, but follow the law when you must ...
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