Republican GODS say No Voting on Sunday in North Carolina Counties!

[mitty14u2]

Democracy is for the the Rich and Powerful - “Not for the Peasants!


Dozens of North Carolina counties slash early voting weeks before Election Day

After spending millions of dollars defending their voting restrictions in court, and losing, the North Carolina Republican Party tried to find a way around the federal ruling. They sent a confidential memo to the boards of elections in the state’s 100 counties urging them cut early voting, which they said was “in the best interest of the party.”

Since that memo went out, 23 Republican-controlled counties have cut early voting hours, some by more than three-quarters. Nine have eliminated Sunday voting. Many counties also voted to eliminate early voting locations on college campuses, including North Carolina’s historically black universities. The three North Carolina counties with the highest percentages of African Americans will also see their early voting opportunities drastically 

The goal of early voting is to ensure that poor people who can’t get off work during regular hours will be able to exercise their right to vote in a democracy,” Barber said. “Something is morally wrong with you if you are working to suppress and undermine the vote.”

But Sunday voting has been a major boon for African American communities over the past few elections, as churches have mobilized to help their congregants cast ballots early. Barber explained that many black churches do this in honor of Bloody Sunday — the day in 1965 where black activists demanding voting rights were clubbed and tear-gassed by police in Selma, Alabama. “If we were beat on a Sunday and bloodied on a Sunday, we should be able to cast our ballot on a Sunday,” he said.

https://thinkprogress.org/dozens-of-north-carolina-counties-slash-early-voting-weeks-before-election-day-d0fe1b54da38#.ov2xx8dxb

Lie, Cheat and Steal elections, the end justifies the means, Win at all cost, Democracy is for the the Rich and Powerful - “Not for the Peasants!

[riversedge]

1. the article says these counties are ddefying a court order........

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https://thinkprogress.org/dozens-of-north-carolina-counties-slash-early-voting-weeks-before-election-day-d0fe1b54da38#.rgmg1o97i


.....Lenoir County is one of dozens of Republican-controlled counties effectively defying a July court ruling that blocked North Carolina’s plan to cut early voting on the grounds the move intentionally targeted black voters — who depend on early voting — with “surgical precision.”

The sole black and Democratic election board member in Lenoir County, Courtney Patterson, called the move “equal to voter suppression in its worst way,” and is filing his own minority report calling for six early voting locations and many additional hours, including on Sunday.

“Because we have so many working-class voters in our county, it is critical that we offer some evening and weekend hours to enable those voters to participate in early voting,” he wrote, noting that under the Republican plan, voters living on the county’s rural edges would have to drive 45 minutes each way in order to cast a ballot.

On Thursday, the majority-Republican state Board of Elections will weigh the fate of early voting in Lenoir and 32 other counties where Republicans and Democrats have clashed on when, where, and how people can vote early.

Voters unhappy with their final decision can then challenge the plans in court. But with early voting set to begin in some counties on October 22, time is running out.

The counties under review hold more than three million voters in the key swing state of North Carolina, meaning the outcome of the election board hearing could decide whether Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump sits in the White House next year.

[Portland_Anni]

2. North Carolina suffers from the oppression of the dominant political party

The Repugs know "The ends justifies the means" politics all too well. It's been a standard operating procedure for decades.

[mfcorey1]

3. Move a major service to Saturday and take Souls to the Polls! Beat them at their own game.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Somebody better be getting an injunction ASAP. DOJ should be

acting on this as well.

[Stuart G]

5. k and r...nt