Link-of-the-Day – Page 20 – Democracy North Carolina

LOD: See Your Whole Ballot Now

You can now preview your actual ballot for the November election online, at the website of the State Board of Elections. Use this link for registered voters; enter your first and last names only, as they appear on the registration rolls; enter your county if you have a relatively common name; don’t enter the birth [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 29th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: TV’s West Wing on Ballot

North Carolina is not the only state where judges are elected in nonpartisan contests on a ballot full of partisan candidates. In Michigan, one Supreme Court candidate has found a way to call attention to the problem. She’s enlisted her sister’s co-stars from the “West Wing” hit series to cut a polished ad about getting [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 25th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day|0 Comments

LOD: Con the Coast

Something that easily folds into your pocket, that’s smaller than an envelope, that’s widely available but in scarce supply, that gets your attention – that’s what overcame reams of scientific data and stopped the oceans from rising. An astonishing miracle. We witnessed it here in North Carolina, and now a little noticed blog has tracked [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 24th, 2012|Environmental Issues, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: What is Vulgar?

Comedian Sarah Silverman has a wicked short video on YouTube about f**king voters in unpleasant ways. If her language seems offensive, what about the guts of what she’s describing? Nasty stuff.

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 21st, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: 60,000+ New Young Voters

Thanks to a unique law in North Carolina, more than 100,000 16 and 17 year olds have preregistered to vote over the past 32 months and about 63,000 of them will be 18 and automatically fully registered by November 6, 2012. In many tight races, these young voters could make a big difference; and an [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 19th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Not Dead, Mad As Hell

Voters in Wake County and elsewhere are getting letters saying they’re suspected of being dead, thanks to North Carolina’s version of True the Vote, the Tea Party-inspired voter purging outfit. WRAL has a chilling account, with links to earlier stories, about this latest chapter in the sometimes useful but mostly destructive work of the NC Voter Integrity [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-09-18T08:12:17-04:00 September 18th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Ethics, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Oiling Your Demise

The Nation magazine has the definitive article about the impact of Citizens United on US elections – including the gusher flow of Middle East oil money through trade groups green-lighted by the Supreme Court’s political decision. The article is by Lee Fang, the writer who broke the story about the cabal of millionaires recruited to [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-09-12T22:27:27-04:00 September 12th, 2012|Citizens United Case, Environmental Issues, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Ballot Box Bullies

The New York Times reports on the myriad lawsuits underway and yet to be filed that could determine the outcome of the 2012 election, with who knows how much delay after November 6. Are you ready for another 5-4 presidential election by the US Supreme Court? The intensity of a tight election can bring out [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 11th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Your Absentee Trustee?

North Carolina election officials don’t like the method Americans for Prosperity is using to solicit voters to request absentee ballots. The group has sent hundreds of thousands of mailers to registered voters with instructions for requesting a ballot by mail, but the request form is pre-addressed to AFP’s office in Raleigh rather than to the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:25-05:00 September 10th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Ethics, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Corporate $ in Gov’s Contest

The Center for Public Integrity has a useful new report about the role of outside money in the North Carolina governor’s contest. It picks up on a theme raised by Democracy North Carolina in a formal complaint to the State Board of Elections in 2008 – namely, that national Republican and Democratic groups were pumping [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-09-05T15:56:51-04:00 September 5th, 2012|Citizens United Case, Disclosure, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics|0 Comments