Link-of-the-Day – Page 5 – Democracy North Carolina

LOD: The Burden of Shelby

Despite vigorous opposition from African-American citizens, the Cleveland County Board of Elections voted 2-1 to merge five precincts into two in the city of Shelby (each precinct in North Carolina has one polling place). The two new precincts will be the largest in the county by far, with over 6,600 and 5,700 voters; they eliminate [...]

By Bob Hall| 2014-07-09T07:09:15-04:00 July 9th, 2014|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: New Law=Less Confidence

Volunteers with Democracy NC and other groups conducted a large Exit Survey at the polls in 34 counties during the May primary. An analysis of the 7,000 surveys undermines NC House Speaker Thom Tillis’ justification for passing the Monster Law; he said it was needed to “restore confidence” in elections, but it’s causing just the [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 July 2nd, 2014|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Fuzzy Math

Republican attorneys and the State of North Carolina filed their response brief against the NC NAACP, League of Women Voters and others seeking an injunction to stop the Monster Law while the legal case winds its way through the courts. Basically, the brief says that more blacks voted in North Carolina's recent primary than in [...]

By Bob Hall| 2014-07-06T18:19:12-04:00 June 28th, 2014|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Smearing Justice

Blue Cross and Reynolds Tobacco are teaming up with the Koch brothers to take over North Carolina’s Supreme Court. That sounds sensational but an article in today’s New York Times documents over $1 million that business and right-wing groups have spent just in the primary to defeat incumbent Justice Robin Hudson. Buying a seat is [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 May 6th, 2014|Citizens United Case, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

LOD: Spilled Koch

North Carolina is apparently becoming the poster child for how self-serving billionaires can protect their profits by buying a state’s elections. The New Yorker has a gruesome profile of the ramped-up manipulation of West Virginia’s people and politics by the energy/chemical industry after a disastrous spill ruined the drinking water for hundreds of thousands of [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 April 8th, 2014|Citizens United Case, Environmental Issues, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

LOD: Double Crossed

A new column by Chris Kromm of the Institute for Southern Studies reveals how this week's release of jaw-dropping numbers about alleged double voting in North Carolina is more about whipping up hysteria to justify voter suppression measures than actually finding real cases of fraud. In state after state, after sensational releases based on the Interstate Voter [...]

By Bob Hall| 2014-04-04T21:42:04-04:00 April 4th, 2014|Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Big Money, Big Talk

Bob Hall, executive director of Democracy North Carolina, released two statements following news today about (1) the US Supreme Court's decision to repeal limits on the total amount a donor can contribute to all federal candidates and parties in an election cycle, and (2) the State Board of Elections's announcement that it found thousands of [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 April 2nd, 2014|Citizens United Case, Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Good Data on Bad Law

Click here for a one-page briefing, loaded with data, about the damaging and discriminatory changes to North Carolina’s election rules, prepared by Democracy NC for a press briefing held by the NC NAACP.

By Bob Hall| 2014-02-07T13:26:39-05:00 February 7th, 2014|Civic Engagement, Disclosure, Get Out the Vote, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Redistricting, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Modernize Voting?

The bipartisan Presidential Commission on Election Administration today issued a report with a series of recommendations designed to help elections officials “improve all voters’ experience in casting their ballots.” On the topic of long lines, the commission concluded that no citizen should have to wait in line for more than 30 minutes to vote, and [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 January 22nd, 2014|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: New Voting Rights Act?

Ari Berman of The Nation provides a good summary of the bipartisan legislation introduced yesterday to amend the Voting Rights Act to address some, but not all, of the damage resulting from the US Supreme Court’s ruling last June. Voting rights expert Spencer Overton says that, despite serious shortcomings, the bill includes “real building blocks [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:16-05:00 January 17th, 2014|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments