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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

LOD: Early Voting Hits Record

The State Board of Elections posted a database of voters participating in One-Stop Early Voting. Here are some observations about who voted during the Early Voting phase of the 2012 primary election. See data for all 100 counties on this spread-sheet: http://democracyncarchive.org/downloads/EarlyVoteRegisTurnoutPrim2012.xls ● One-Stop Early Voting ended Saturday, May 5th, with a record turnout of North Carolina [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:28-05:00 May 6th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Get Out the Vote, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases|2 Comments

LOD: Voter Confusion Index

Democracy North Carolina today released a “Voter Confusion Index” that ranks the counties suffering the most complex changes as a result of redistricting. Most voters will go to the same precinct polling site where they voted in 2010, but their ballots will now have a different set of General Assembly and Congressional candidates because of [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-05-02T20:36:28-04:00 May 2nd, 2012|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Redistricting, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Voter, Be Prepared

Early voting for the primary has begun – and so has the confusion caused by the new district maps drawn up after redistricting. Many voters have been placed in new districts, and about two million voters live in hundreds of precincts that are divided between two different state House, state Senate or Congressional districts. That [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:29-05:00 April 20th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Redistricting, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Secrecy & Pay-to-Play

House Speaker Thom Tillis left out loads of information about his donors when he filed his campaign disclosure report for the last half of 2011. He got called out by Democracy NC and others; he said he’d fix the report and file an amendment. Well, the new report is in and there are still lots [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-02-28T22:18:25-05:00 February 28th, 2012|Disclosure, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: McCrory’s Opening Miscue

Guess where Pat McCrory ended his swing across the state, announcing the official start of his campaign for governor as the candidate who will “turn North Carolina around” and end the “corruption” of the Democrats? The trip finished in Wilmington, with a large McCrory rally at a pool hall and grill - which is owned [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-02-09T15:32:23-05:00 February 9th, 2012|Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Starving Elections

A bipartisan group of election officials from more than 85 counties sent a letter to NC General Assembly leaders late last week, urging them to release $4 million designated for improving the administration of the 2012 elections. The funds come from the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002 and are in a NC bank [...]

By Bob Hall| 2012-02-07T09:13:11-05:00 February 7th, 2012|Civic Engagement, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Voting Rights|0 Comments

LOD: Pope’s Blessing

An editorial writer for the Raleigh News & Observer handed Art Pope a bevy of compliments for his “humanitarian” philanthropy, extolling the list of “charities and universities the Pope Foundation blessed with $1.2 million in grants last year.” Alliance Medical Ministries - $10,000; Barium Springs Home for Children - $10,000; Blessed Sacrament School - $10,000; etc. [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:30-05:00 January 26th, 2012|Ethics, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics|0 Comments

LOD: Lobbyist-Donor Ban Upheld

The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld North Carolina's year-round ban on registered lobbyists making campaign contributions to state candidates. Previously, NC had a ban while the General Assembly was in session, but after the fiasco involving then-Speaker Jim Black, the legislature expanding the prohibition to cover 24/7, 365 days a year. Democracy North [...]

By Bob Hall| 2011-11-07T19:11:05-05:00 November 7th, 2011|Link-of-the-Day, Lobbying, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Pay to Play|0 Comments

LOD: Justice at Stake

A trio of groups that analyze judicial elections today released a report documenting a national campaign “to intimidate America’s state judges into becoming accountable to money and ideologies instead of the Constitution and the law.” The New Politics of Judicial Elections, 2010 examines the “hostile takeover” of judicial elections by special interests and the attacks on [...]

By Bob Hall| 2017-01-03T12:05:34-05:00 October 27th, 2011|Judicial Elections, Link-of-the-Day, Media Feed & Press Releases, Money in Politics, Voter-Owned Elections|0 Comments

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