We are writing to alert you to a new attack against basic voting rights in North Carolina. A new bill in the NC Senate would eliminate Same-Day Registration and youth pre-registration, slice a week off Early Voting, end Sunday voting, and require other changes that will make it much harder for millions of NC citizens to vote. [...]
NC House bill would give insurance companies and other special interests control over healthcare reform implementation The NC House Insurance Committee has taken up a controversial bill (H-115) that gives insurance companies a large role in overseeing how consumers will be able to buy "affordable" insurance coverage through a state-level “health benefits exchange” to be [...]
Help Us Fight Voter Photo ID! (HB 351) Wednesday, April 13th at 11:00 AM NC General Assembly Building 16 W. Jones St. Raleigh, NC As you probably know -- along with protecting voter-owned elections and fighting against big money politics -- Democracy North Carolina is opposing a hard-line bill in the General Assembly that requires [...]
JCSU Students Plan March 21 Rally To Voice Concerns Over Threat To Voting Rights Rally to be held on Monday, March 21st starting at 11:00 AM on the steps of Biddle Memorial Hall on the Johnson C. Smith campus. Student and community leaders, Johnson C. Smith President Dr. Ronald Carter and NC District 40 Senator [...]
House Bill 351 was introduced in the NC General Assembly yesterday requiring NC voters to present government-issued photo ID each time they vote. Our research shows that this bill could negatively affect more than 460,000 active voters statewide who lack a government-issued photo ID, primarily seniors, women, college students and African-American voters. Worse, as our [...]
NC GOP leaders finally introduced their voter photo ID bill late yesterday and it's just a bad bill all around. Not only does it not address the biggest causes of voter fraud, it actually makes it easier to commit absentee ballot fraud, is badly underfunded and imposes a host of costly administrative requirements on NC counties. [...]
For additional information, contact Bob Hall, Democracy North Carolina, 919-489-1931 Data Highlight: Who Are the Active Voters Without A Photo ID? Who are the voters most likely to face barriers by a proposal to require voters to show a government-issued photo ID each time they vote? In early February, the State Board of Elections matched its database [...]
For Release Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Contact: Bob Hall, 919-489-1931 Bill Sponsor Received $22,500 in 2010 As the legislature debates a controversial bill to allow construction of “terminal groins” along North Carolina’s beaches, a new study reveals that the bill’s chief sponsor and other state lawmakers have received $2 million in campaign donations from a [...]
They may be old, but they know what they are talking about. Help us spread this video so we can spread the word about opposing the Voter Photo ID Bill:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 3, 2011 FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact Bob Hall at (919) 489-1931 Data Highlight: Misleading Polls from the Pope Civitas Institute The John W. Pope Civitas Institute is publicizing a new opinion poll designed to bring attention to their perspective on key issues, in this case election-related policies [see notes 1 and [...]