Link-of-the-Day – Page 24 – Democracy North Carolina

LOD: Daily Show in Florida

Want to know what kind of havoc an anti-voter governor can inflict on citizens he doesn’t like? You can get a taste from the initiatives of Gov. Rick Scott in Florida, including ridiculous rules for registering new voters that drove away the League of Women Voters and mean-spirited ethnic cleansing of voters already on the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-06-15T17:32:20-04:00 June 15th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Help America Vote Update

Follow-up on HAVA funds: The NC General Assembly continues to hear about the importance of including roughly $650,000 in the state budget in order to free up $4.1 million in federal money for operating our elections system. The federal money from the Help America Vote Act will pay for voting machine maintenance, poll worker training, Early [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:28-05:00 June 12th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Carolina Business Coalition

There’s lots in the daily news of the doings and undoings in the General Assembly and elsewhere, but you may have missed coverage about this new electioneering operation sponsored by the Ayn Rand-wing of the North Carolina business establishment. The mainstream press hasn't noticed yet. Public-interest investigator Greg Flynn reports that these White-Men-With-Too-Much-Money have hired [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:28-05:00 June 7th, 2012|Citizens United Case, Disclosure, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

LOD: Political Poison

The Institute for Southern Studies/Facing South reveals the connection between toxic money pouring into NC politics and legislation to increase toxic chemicals pouring into our air. The article draws on a new analysis by Democracy North Carolina of the political muscle of 27 leading polluters and their trade groups. Hint: by themselves, they annually spend [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-06-01T21:51:27-04:00 June 1st, 2012|Environmental Issues, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Video Fraud Take 2

The video purporting to document two non-citizens and a dead man receiving ballots during the NC primary turns out to be an even bigger hoax than we first reported. James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas carefully edited out a section of the filming where the voter impersonating a dead person actually requests the ballot in the name [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:28-05:00 May 25th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Candidates Rewarded for Good

In the midst of Super PAC spending and candidates hustling big-dollar donors, here’s a positive story from North Carolina: Candidates are actually agreeing to accept strict campaign spending limits and to rely only on small donations and a public grant authorized by hundreds of registered voters! Today, the State Board of Elections sent notices to [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-05-24T18:23:48-04:00 May 24th, 2012|Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Gender Gap Among Voters

What’s the gap between registered voters by gender in North Carolina? Among whites, 53.5% of registered voters are women and 46.5% are men – a 7 percentage point gap, according to Democracy NC’s analysis of election data. For African Americans, the gap is much larger: 58% of registered black voters are women and only 42% [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:28-05:00 May 23rd, 2012|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: NC & the Supremes

US Supreme Court decisions hit home today in two ways (not counting the Court-blessed, corporate-funded slug fest now going on between surrogates of North Carolina’s Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates). A lower court today ruled that the rescue funds provision of NC’s public campaign financing programs are illegal, because of the US Supreme Court’s decision [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-05-21T22:50:42-04:00 May 21st, 2012|Citizens United Case, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Voter-Owned Elections|1 Comment

LOD: Citizens United’s Origins

The New Yorker this week has an in-depth account of the manipulations and blunders that inflated a narrow issue before the US Supreme Court into the now infamous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision. The majority opinion didn’t need to make sense – it had 5 of the 9 votes, enough to win; the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-05-19T18:11:26-04:00 May 19th, 2012|Citizens United Case, Disclosure, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Video Fraud

Earlier this week, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released a 10-minute video allegedly documenting voter fraud in North Carolina, featuring two examples of non-citizens who voted in past elections. O’Keefe gained national attention for his cleverly edited videos attacking ACORN, and some in the NC media were ready to gobble up his latest offering. Fortunately, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:28-05:00 May 17th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Voting Rights|1 Comment