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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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% [...]
A few weeks ago, the State Board of Elections made the appointments for all 100 county boards of elections – two Republicans and one Democrat per county, from lists provided by the state political parties. The party of the governor gets the majority of seats on each local board, as well as the State Board [...]
Gov. Pat McCrory today signed the monster, 60-part elections bill into law that will dramatically change North Carolina’s election process, beginning in 2014 and 2016 when its most sweeping provisions come into effect. Our handy factsheet shows how the law restricts and redefines who can vote, where, when and how and, at the same time, [...]
Gov. Pat McCrory is expected to sign the monster anti-voting bill any day now. H-589 began in the state House as a photo ID bill but in the final days of the session, the state Senate rolled out a harsher version of the ID requirement, plus 40+ new provisions, including dozens that had never been discussed [...]