Link-of-the-Day – Page 7 – Democracy North Carolina

LOD: Measuring Voter Fraud

What’s next for selectively reducing turnout in North Carolina? Let’s hope it’s not the voter roll purges that Southern states like Florida and Virginia are now undertaking. With two weeks before a hot gubernatorial election, Virginia is in the midst of a hot debate over whether it’s okay to purge a list of 38,000 voters, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 October 21st, 2013|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Let Justice Prevail

The federal judge who ruled in favor of the first landmark voter ID case is now admitting he made a mistake. In 2005, Indiana adopted a photo ID requirement for voters, and Court of Appeals Judge Richard Posner upheld the law, the New York Times says, “because he saw no evidence that any voters would [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 October 17th, 2013|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Newby’s New Challenge

On Friday, Democracy North Carolina, the NAACP and other groups challenging the 2011 redistricting plans filed a new motion with the NC Supreme Court to have Justice Paul Newby removed from hearing that challenge. As NC Policy Watch reports, “That’s because the . . . organization largely responsible for the drafting of the redistricting plans, [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 October 16th, 2013|Ethics, Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics, Pay to Play, Redistricting|0 Comments

LOD: Fired Up Youth

Students from St. Augustine’s University capped a semester of civic engagement activities with an Election Day march to the polls on October 8th in Raleigh. View this video testimony of first-time voters who felt empowered through the “Falcons Vote” campaign that Common Cause of NC helped organize with support from administrators and student leaders. Meanwhile, in [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 October 12th, 2013|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Pope Protests

Art Pope is unhappy that a national campaign reform leader says he uses the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling and Super PACs to pump money from his stores into North Carolina politics. Pope is partly right: he doesn’t depend on the CU ruling or a PAC for targeting candidates with nasty ads; instead, he uses [...]

By gabe@democracy-nc.org| 2013-10-10T12:52:27-04:00 October 10th, 2013|Link-of-the-Day, Money in Politics|0 Comments

LOD: Students Win, Mostly

By a unanimous vote, the State Board of Elections wisely decided not to get kicked in the rear by a Superior Court judge. Board members knew state law and federal court cases clearly were on the side of Montravias King’s ability to run for office from his dorm address at Elizabeth City State University. King’s [...]

By Bob Hall| 2013-09-03T21:54:37-04:00 September 3rd, 2013|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Pope’s Anti-Voting Champs

The Institute for Southern has this new analysis of how Art Pope’s network worked for the adoption of voter suppression legislation – and continues to find new ways to disenfranchise voters, especially those who are aren't as pale or old as Art Pope.

By Bob Hall| 2013-08-29T23:01:12-04:00 August 29th, 2013|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Rachel Live from Eliz City

The Rachel Maddow Show devoted its entire show to the unfolding scandal of Republican efforts to purge student voters from participating in North Carolina elections. The link may begin the show in its second segment; to begin at the beginning, click the first video scene in the upper left of the webpage, the one that [...]

By Bob Hall| 2013-08-23T06:07:59-04:00 August 23rd, 2013|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Redistricting, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Bring in the Feds

The US Department of Justice last month decided to challenge anti-voting laws in Texas. Here's a petition to sign to encourage US-DOJ to take action in North Carolina, too! North Carolina’s new anti-voting monster law appears designed to make voting harder for groups that Republican leaders think don’t support them. For example, women are 64% [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 19th, 2013|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Redistricting, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments

LOD: Sticking it to Students

On the heels of the new Monster Law that excludes state-issued student IDs from the list of acceptable IDs a voter must show after January 2016, some local elections boards are going even further. Tuesday’s LOD described the Watauga County Board of Elections’ decision to eliminate the Early Voting and Election Day polling sites from the [...]

By admin| 2017-01-03T12:05:17-05:00 August 16th, 2013|Link-of-the-Day, Our Issues, Voting Rights, Youth Vote|0 Comments